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Does the statue represent God? Is the flag sacred? What is the status of the sacred symbols, and what happens to them when they move to the cyberspace?
In this lecture, computerized icons in religious/spiritual/magical ceremonies and their status were examined and analyzed. The lecture is part of a research project in which an article was published and lectures were presented in other directions.
See links below.
This lecture took part in the “First Workshop for Studies in Visual Culture” of the interdisciplinary program for Hermeneutics Studies at Bar Ilan University, in the spring of 2007, March 2007.

Abstract

For the (Hebrew) abstract – go to the links below or the Hebrew parallel page on this site.

Lecturer

Marianna Ruah-Midbar Shapiro

Date

March 26th, 2007

Links

To download the graphical conference program (in Hebrew) – click here.
To download the textual conference program (in Hebrew) – click here.
To download the conference’s abstracts booklet (in Hebrew, the lecture’s abstract is on page 11 of the file) – click here.
To download the Call-For-Papers distributed towards the workshop (in Hebrew) – click here.

Language

Hebrew

Academic/Non-academic

Academic item

Bibliographical citation

One is advised to refer to the relevant article, see link below.

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