Numinous fields : perceiving the sacred in nature, landscape, and art /
Numinous Fields has its roots in a phenomenological understanding of perception. It seeks to understand what, beyond the mere sensory data they provide, landscape, nature and art, both separately and jointly, may mean when we experience them. It focuses on actual or potential experiences of the numi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2024].
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| Summary: | Numinous Fields has its roots in a phenomenological understanding of perception. It seeks to understand what, beyond the mere sensory data they provide, landscape, nature and art, both separately and jointly, may mean when we experience them. It focuses on actual or potential experiences of the numinous, or sacred, that such encounters may give rise to. This volume is multidisciplinary in scope. It examines perceptions of place, space, nature and art as well as perceptions of place, space and nature in art. It includes chapters written by art curators, and historians and scholars in the fields of landscape, architecture, cultural geography, religious studies, philosophy and art. Its chapters examine ideas, objects and practices from the ancient time of Aboriginal Australians' Dreaming through to the present. The volume is also multicultural in scope and includes chapters focused on manifestations of the sacred in indigenous culture, in cultures influenced by each of the world's major religions, and in the secular, contemporary world. |
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| Physical Description: | xxii, 388 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004687370 9004687378 |