IN SEARCH OF THE ORIGINS OF ISRAELITE ANICONISM by S I Kang

Subjects: “…Aniconism…”
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L’apport de la sculpture à la compréhension des fonctions liturgiques by Pascale Chevalier

“…Within the ecclesial space, sculptures with mainly aniconic content were found on the liturgical furniture: altar, ciborium, cathedra, chancel, ambo, and so on. …”
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„... das Unendliche im Endlichen gebären ...“ by Susanne Gödde

“…Meaning is constituted through the indexicality of a (primarily aniconic) image of a god, whereby the cult-image of a phallus (which, according to Creuzer, represents the letter of a natural language) emerges as a privileged signifier. 3. …”
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Catholic Church Interiors in Fin-de-Siècle Literature by Claire Masurel-Murray

“…Drawing on William Whyte’s analyses of changing attitudes towards church architecture in the 19th century in Unlocking the Church: The Lost Secrets of Victorian Sacred Space (OUP 2017), it shows how literary representations of church interiors in fin-de-siècle literature reflect the shift from the Protestant aniconic, congregation-centred approach to church design, in favour of an architecture of affect and sensation, where space and ornamentation lead the worshipper to experience the divine through a sensory overload. …”
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