This book explores localized Hindu elements in Southeast Asian art from ancient times to present

This book explores localized Hindu elements in Southeast Asian art from ancient times to present

In modern understanding, a crisis can be an event or a period of (or leading to) an unstable or dangerous situation. It can affect an individual, a group or the whole society. However, a crisis is not only a threat, it also implies the need for (and the chance for) change and improvement. Historically, the term was borrowed from Greek…[Read more]

This paper aims to examine models by which symbolism of light and lamp in
the Mediterranean region was manifested in the early Christian visual culture,
i.e. lamp representations from Central Balkans. Lamps with Early
Christian representations are considered in the context of transculturality
of Late Antiquity, as well as political and…[Read more]

Elements of Christian visual culture appeared in
various media in monumental and applied art during the late
antique period, from painted decoration in the catacombs,
through funerary monuments, to utilitarian objects such as
jewellery and lamps. The paper analyses the symbolic meaning
of fish and maritime motifs in the context of the late…[Read more]

On a number of pilgrimage objects from Late Antiquity, St Thecla, a highly revered saint, also known as Thecla the Protomartyr, is shown accompanied by St Menas, whose tomb in Egypt was the pilgrimage centre associated with healing miracles. The saintly couple appear in ad bestias compositions or in a simplified variant as two saints with a cross.…[Read more]

Āyurveda, the predominant medical system in pre-modern South Asia, is by definition a very individualistic tradition of healing, discerning and treating the patients under special consideration of their personal constitution, diet, physical strength, habituation, character and age. Furthermore, the āyurvedic source texts show a strong commitment t…[Read more]

लगभग एक सौ वर्षों से, भौतिकवादियों ने तर्क दिया है कि मानव चेतना मस्तिष्क में न्यूरॉन्स की सक्रियता तक ही सीमित है और इसलिए कोई सामाजिक चेतना नहीं हो सकती है। यह एक बेतुका तर्क है. इस तथ्य से कि मस्तिष्क में न्यूरॉन्स सक्रिय होते हैं, इसका मतलब यह नहीं है कि कोई सामाजिक चेतना नहीं है।

आदेश के बिंदु के रूप में मैं इस बात पर प्र…[Read more]

“Experience has shown pastoral caregivers that individuals do seem to cope better if they can “actualize” their spiritual experiences in times of crisis.”
A substantial amount of interest in spiritual experiences recently appears to be from a re-emergence of interest from the (unofficial) pastoral school of thought in psychology. For ins…[Read more]

Geertz, perhaps the most influential of the anthropologists, contends that symbolism and meaning are central to religion: “The view of man as a symbolizing, conceptualizing, meaning-seeking animal, which has become increasingly popular both in the social sciences and in philosophy over the past several years, opens up a whole new approach not o…[Read more]

Einstein observed, “Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration of this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.” As the p…[Read more]

This is a history of the Centre William Rappard, the first building designed to house an international organization in Geneva, and its art treasures. For nearly a century, these works of art and decorations offered by governments and institutions encouraged smooth diplomacy and fluent international negotiations in the fields of labour, trade and…[Read more]

“Every culture develops some kind of art as surely as it develops language. Some primitive cultures have no real mythology or religion, but all have some art – dance, song, design (sometimes only on tools or on the human body). Dance, above all, seems to be the oldest elaborated art….. Art is, indeed, the spearhead of human development, social…[Read more]

The name of Joaquina Mayol Bazo (Málaga, 1830 – 1915) is linked to her former husband, the photographer Eugenio Lorichon, son of the legendary pioneer of photography in Spain: Enrique Lorichon. Joaquina worked as an independent photographer in Malaga from 1860 to 1865, above all, under the name of Viuda de Lorichon. / El nombre de Joaquina Ma…[Read more]

This is a history of the Centre William Rappard, the first building designed to house an international organization in Geneva, and its art treasures. For nearly a century, these works of art and decorations offered by governments and institutions encouraged smooth diplomacy and fluent international negotiations in the fields of labour, trade and…[Read more]

In the Madrid photographic panorama between 1857 and 1868, the presence of Ángel Alonso Martínez is a permanent note, which does not correspond to the scant knowledge we have of his professional career. We intend to shed some more light on this signature: «A. Alonso Martínez and Brother». / En el panorama fotográfico madrileño entre 1857 y 1868,…[Read more]

Discover unique photographs by pioneer photographers in Spain: Clifford, Masson, Lorichon, Blanco, Clonwek, Napoleón, Franck y Sanz y Benito, Conde de Lipa, Massari and more… The primitives in the Fernández Rivero Collection of Old Photograph.

In the series Puṣpikā – Tracing Ancient India through Texts and Traditions: Contributions to Current Research in Indology, the proceedings of the International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (IIGRS) are published. Puṣpikā is a peer-reviewed series that provides early-career scholars with a platform to share the results of their researc…[Read more]

Announcement for the opening of the exhibition “Eden and Everything After” at the University of Stavanger Archaelogical Museum and publication of attendant catalogue.

Queer theorists have traditionally advocated for the adoption of an outlook of queer pessimism in order to develop a criticality that helps the queer community effectively address the issues it presently faces. Some queer theorists, however, have instead advocated for an outlook of queer optimism—an outlook which allows space for celebrating joy a…[Read more]