Aztec Religion and Art of Writing - Investigating Embodied Meaning, Indigenous Semiotics, and the Nahua Sense of Reality

Laack's study presents an innovative interpretation of Aztec religion and art of writing. She explores the Nahua sense of reality from the perspective of the aesthetics of religion and analyzes Indigenous semiotics and embodied meaning in Mesoamerican pictorial writing.

About the author

Dr. Isabel Laack, Privatdozentin at the Institute for the Study of Religion, Heidelberg University, Germany, is the author of Religion und Musik in Glastonbury (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011) as well as numerous articles in the field of the aesthetics of religion.

Product details

• Authors: Isabel Laack
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.01.2019
• EAN: 9789004391451
• ISBN: 978-90-04-39145-1
• No. of pages: 456
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 249 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 748 g
• Series: Numen Book
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions