Idolatry and Fixation:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Idolatry and Fixation: "
Melissa Raphael

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1069584
Doc. No	:	LA113213
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15697320-12341278‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Melissa Raphael
Title & Author	:	Idolatry and Fixation: [Article] : Modern Jewish Thought and the Criticism of Cosmetically and Technologically Perfected Female Faces in Contemporary Popular Culture\ Melissa Raphael
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	International Journal of Public Theology
Date	:	2013
Volume/ Issue Number	:	7/2
Page No	:	135–156
Abstract	:	This article argues that the ‘halakhically’ (legally) governed representational techniques employed by Jewish art are founded upon a counter-idolatrous theology of appearance: both human and divine. In drawing upon a range of Jewish sources from the ancient to the contemporary period that understand idolatry as an estrangement of the world from God, this article presents a Jewish feminist theological critique of alienation in the late modern popular visual regime, while suggesting that it is nonetheless possible for public culture to behold the divine image in images of the human without such images becoming idolatrous. This article argues that the ‘halakhically’ (legally) governed representational techniques employed by Jewish art are founded upon a counter-idolatrous theology of appearance: both human and divine. In drawing upon a range of Jewish sources from the ancient to the contemporary period that understand idolatry as an estrangement of the world from God, this article presents a Jewish feminist theological critique of alienation in the late modern popular visual regime, while suggesting that it is nonetheless possible for public culture to behold the divine image in images of the human without such images becoming idolatrous.
Descriptor	:	contemporary popular culture
Descriptor	:	Jewish art
Descriptor	:	Jewish feminist theology
Descriptor	:	Jewish theology
Descriptor	:	theology of appearance
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15697320-12341278‬