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Religious studies, and also theology to a certain degree, are multi-method disciplines where, in recent years, the traditional textual sources have increasingly come to be supplied with a wider range of material. The anthology Approaches to the Visual in Religion is the result of an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional group of European scholars and what the editors call their “interdisciplinary conversations.” Their common aim according to the editors’ general introduction, is that the “broad spectrum of approaches to the visual will stimulate other scholars to investigate and deepen their appreciation of the visual aspect of religious traditions and their symbol systems in the variety of their historically and socially contingent contexts of reception”(12). The spectrum of approaches in this volume is indeed broad, although primarily grounded in the sweeping territory of hermeneutics and cultural studies. The “visual” in this present anthology is apparently more narrowly defined, as it is dominated by two-dimensional art, i.e., paintings, drawings, and etchings or woodcuts. The art historical “canon” supplies material for a third of the articles (Rembrandt, Dürrenmatt, Blake, Memling, Turner), while four out of fifteen articles consider the movie media as the visual source of the discussions. There are only two articles
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Published: Jan 1, 2013
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