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Tag Archives: India
(Iconic Jewishness) David Sassoon (Mumbai)
Heschel speculates somewhere (I think in God in Search of Man) about what Judaism would have turned into or, let’s say, looked like if major Jewish communities had found themselves settled in India as opposed to Europe. Perhaps more iconic … Continue reading
My Thursday (This Semester) Seeing the Divine Image in India & Spinoza
Teaching Religion and Art and Politics & Religion/Modern Judaism today. They make sense together. The conceptual linkage: nature and the divine, big cosmic/metaphysical pictures, substance and avatar/modalities, imagination and images, religion and politics.
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Great Colonial Fruit Bat
The Great Indian Fruit Bat, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art actually points you down a set of stairs in the museum. Attributed to Bhawani Das, as described formally by the Met curators, its geography is Calcutta, India, it’s culture … Continue reading
Zohar Spinning Revolutions Looks Like (Shiva Nataraja)
Rabbi Yitzhak opened, “He revolves wheels by His devices, according to their deeds, whatever He command them on the face of the inhabited earth (Job 37:12). He revolves wheels –The blessed Holy One spins revolutions in the world, bringing cloaked dazzlers … Continue reading
Haptic Religion and the Religions of India (Max Müller)
Reading Max Müller’s Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion As Illustrated by the Religions of India (1882). An odd book, it does a lot of different things. On the one hand, Müller’s thinking about religion is steeped in … Continue reading
Tiferet & Shekhina Look Like (Shiva and Parvati)
This one was obvious; divine coupling.
Hesed-Din-Tiferet Look Like (Brahman-Shiva-Vishnu
Different in almost every other aspect, it is the triadic quality and its maleness that mark the mental resemblance between the group Hesed, Din, and Tiferet (the sephirot instantiating the divine qualities of compassion, judgment, and beauty) with the three … Continue reading
Makom Looks Like (Krishna)
This looks like the rabbinic idea of God as Makom (Place). In the Bhagavad Gita (9:4), Krishna asserts, “All beings are in Me, but I am not in them.” I’m ready to confess I’m getting it wrong. I found it quoted by … Continue reading
Gods of Flesh Gods of Stone (Theo-morphic Indian Religion)
Close to finishing up for the moment a round of reading about Hinduism to be able to conclude that the discourse about images and idolatry in modern Jewish thought is fundamentally confused. But maybe Jewish Studies scholars interested in visual … Continue reading
Religious & Political Lives of Indian Images (Richard H. Davis)
A super awesome book, I’m not sure how I stumbled upon this one. Maybe maybe it was upon the recommendation of my nephew who went to Bard, where Richard H. Davis teaches. Less devoted to aesthetics per se, Lives of … Continue reading