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Encyclopedia of Religion, Second Edition, Volume 14: Transcendental Meditation - Zwingli, Huldrych

In both oral and literate societies, the tendency to intermingle word and image is irresistible. Spoken words, whether song, chant, or prose, contain the life-force or spirit of the speaker and are commonly joined to images by incantation and by rituals designed to charge images with power. Written words are themselves signifiers that can be pictorialized in many different ways in order to compound the potency of images. Word and image are imbricated or patterned one on top of the other for the purpose of enhancing memory, expanding the capacity of visual narrative, or avoiding the injunctions against visual representation that some religions enforce. By visualizing spoken or written language in the form of symbolic devices, image makers are able to create a hybrid form of discourse—pictographs, hieroglyphs, ideograms, or characters. Finally, naming is a universal practice in human culture. Visualizing names in graphic symbols or pictorial tableaux is often a way of remembering or evoking the deceased or tapping
the power of the spirit by accessing its essence contained within the name.

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No. Panggil

Online

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Michigan, USA : Macmillan Reference USA., 2005

Deskripsi Fisik

737 p. : 29 cm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-02-865983-X

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NONE

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text

Tipe Media

electronic

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Second Edition

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Electronic reference books
Encyclopedias
Religion Encyclopedias

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Jones, Lindsay

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