Biological and behavioral description and analysis of human senses in ecologically relevant circumstances
Christian icons were used spiritually before Islam, continued to be used through Byzantine iconoclasm, and were prevalent in the 9th-century Islamic world. … Read the post Christian icons in Islamic world during Byzantine iconoclasm
The Sackler Gallery’s fantastic Dunhuang cave visualization installation shows new media technologies that can greatly lever cultural and economic assets. … Read the post Dunhuang visualization shows media lever for cultural assets
Amid vigorous, decentralized visual-spiritual competition in ancient China, the story of Jesus, not spiritual use of images, distinguished “The Way.” … Read the post spiritual use of images in ancient Chinese Christianity
Galen used a classical Aesop fable about a Hermes statue to connect material to soul and mock Posidippus’s epigram about a statue of Philitas of Cos. … Read the post Galen analogized godly man to Hermes herm
In al-Biruni view, Muslim scholars should study Hindu thought and be no more concerned Hindu idolatry than about similar Greco-Roman idolatry. … Read the post al-Biruni treats Hindu idolatry like ancient Greco-Roman idolatry