Visualizing the Gods
Abstract
It may come as a paradox that the proliferation of divine images in India, and the power that is ascribed to them, gives but a limited idea of the ways Gods are thought to be present among humans. Actually, as everyone might observe, a lot of divine presences are not at all represented by an anthropomorphic image endowed with eyes. The paper develops other modes of making a God "present", and argues that that the relationship between iconography and rituals is not always an easy one: there may be some tension, if not contradiction, between the two.
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