Transcultural imaginations of the sacred

Contents

Introduction : transcultural imaginations of the sacred. Changing perceptions of alterity in processes of transcultural negotiation / Margit Kern -- "Americana Thebaida" : a glocal topology / Julia Kloss-Weber -- The tipping point in mimesis : processes of transcultural negotiation in the sculpture of the Paraquarian Jesuit missions / Amrei Buchholz -- Cracks and clefts : dealing with the pigments of Our Lady of Copacabana / Gabriela Siracusano -- Conflict and negotiation in transcultural processes in colonial Brazil, or : does the Holy Spirit have a face? / Jens Baumgarten -- Conceptions of space in the missionary periodical Der Neue Welt-Bott / Ira Oppermann -- The holy man's cave : Franciscan permeations of time and space, ca. 1300. / Amy L. Neff -- Charismatic desert saints. Charisms as signifiers of the "other" in Thebaid cycles of the Italian tre- and quattrocento / Christine Ungruh -- Borrowing figurative patterns : the meaning of the "Dormition of the Hermit" in fifteenth-century Florentine paintings / Alessandra Malquori -- Aesthetics of resistance : the "unbelievable" idol, its life, and its dual death / Avinoam Shalem -- Being like Jesus and Mary : the Jesuits, the polyglot Bible and other Antwerp print works at the Mughal Court / Ebba Koch -- Seeing beyond form : western tableaux in Mughal painting as paradigms of the emperor's perfect vision / Alberto Saviello.