Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity
@inproceedings{Elsner2020EmpiresOF, title={Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity}, author={Jas' Elsner}, year={2020} }
This book reveals the rewards of exploring the relationship between art and religion in the ûrst millennium, and the particular problems of comparing the visual cultures of diûerent emergent and established religions of the period in Eurasia – Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity and the pagan religions of the Roman world. Most of these became established and remained in play as what are called ‘the world religions’. The chapters in this volume show how the long…
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¿Cómo adquieren los objetos-imagen un significado religioso? ¿Cuándo podemos interpretar las fuentes materiales como restos de un ritual religioso? Estas cuestiones son fundamentales para la…
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Corpus dei papiri filosofici Greci e Latini (CPF). Testi e lessico nei papiri di cultura greca e latina. Parte II.1: Frammenti Adespoti. Pp. xxx + 268, pls. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2019.…
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