Our sacred signs :

Soltes, Ori Z.

Our sacred signs : how Jewish, Christian, and Muslim art draw from the same source / Ori Z. Soltes. - Cambridge, MA : Westview Press, c2005. - xi, 275 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-261) and index.

Symbols of faith: art as an instrument of religion -- Symbols in ancient art -- Monotheism and the development of the Abrahamic traditions -- Christian symbols from catacomb to cathedral -- Jewish and Muslim symbols in sacred and profane contexts -- The survival of symbols in a secularizing western world -- Symbols of faith in twentieth-century visual art.

081334297X (hc : alk. paper) 9780813342979 (hc : alk. paper)

2005013053

GBA546510 bnb

013210654 Uk


Art and religion.
Symbolism in art.

N72.R4 / S65 2005

704.9/48
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