The sacred gaze: religious visual culture in theory and practice

Name: The sacred gaze: religious visual culture in theory and practice
Author: David Morgan

Author

David Morgan

Publisher

University of California Press

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Title and Author

The sacred gaze: religious visual culture in theory and practice / David Morgan

Publication Details

برکلی : University of California Press، 2005م

Physical Description

xv, 318 p.: ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

Art and religion

Language

انگلیسی

Includes bibliographical references )p. 503-903( and index.

Contents

Pt. 1. Questions and definitions. Defining visual culture -- Visual practice and the function of images -- The covenant with images -- Pt. 2. Images between cultures. The violence of seeing : idolatry and iconoclasm -- The circulation of images in mission history -- Pt. 3. The social life of pictures. Engendering vision : absent fathers and women with beards -- National icons : Bibles, flags, and Jesus in American civil religion

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