[audiobook] Becoming Landowners: Entanglements of Custom and Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste (Topics in the Contemporary Pacific) by Victoria C. Stead at Arts-Photography

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Icons provide depictions of God or encounters with the divine that enable reflection and prayer. In the Beginning is the Icon explores the value of these images for a theology of liberation. Iconology; art theory; philosophical aesthetics; art history and anthropology are integrated with rigorous theological reflection to argue that the creation and observation of pictures can have a liberating effect on humanity. In presenting art from across the world; In the Beginning is the Icon reflects the ethnocentricity of both art and religious studies and offers a new cross-cultural approach to the theology of art.