Mikael Aktor reviews the panel he co-organised on Aniconism at the 2015 IAHR World Conference in Erfurt, Germany.
Anicionic objects
from different religious traditions together form a broad category of religious
material sources. In fact, it seems both too broad and incoherent. It includes
clearly recognizable depictions of wheels, fish, phalli, unmanufactured objects
and elements in the natural environment such as unwrought stones,...