Images: Veneration of Images
The veneration of images involves humans or other subjects showing respect and homage to objects that visually represent, point to, or embody sacred beings or realities held to be especially worthy of honor. While such practices have been disputed in many religious traditions and decisively rejected by a few, the veneration of images has been a remarkably widespread form of ritual practice throughout history in many parts of the world.
The English terms used here, veneration and image, both derive from Latin, but they may be adequately used to translate such indigenous terms as the Indic mūrtipūjā. Deriving.....
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