The Sacred Gaze: Religious Visual Culture in Theory and Practice

Author:   David Morgan
Publisher:   University of California Press
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9780520243064


Pages:   333
Publication Date:   31 May 2005
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   David Morgan
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780520243064


ISBN 10:   0520243064
Pages:   333
Publication Date:   31 May 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction I. Questions and Definitions 1. Defining Visual Culture 2. Visual Practice and the Function of Images 3. The Covenant with Images II. Images Between Cultures 4. The Violence of Seeing: Idolatry and Iconoclasm 5. The Circulation of Images in Mission History III. The Social Life of Pictures 6. Engendering Vision: Absent Fathers and Women with Beards 7. National Icons: Bibles, Flags, and Jesus in American Civil Religion Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index

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The Sacred Gaze is of fundamental importance for the relations between images and religious belief, and is a major contribution to the burgeoning field of visual studies. Morgan's wide-ranging book moves from the contested status of images between cultures, to the history of current American attitudes towards them. A notable achievement. - David Freedberg, author of The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response


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David Morgan is the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Professor in Christianity and the Arts, and Professor of Humanities and Art History in Christ College, Valparaiso University. He is author of several books, including Visual Piety (California, 1998) and Protestants and Pictures (1999), and coeditor with Sally M. Promey of The Visual Culture of American Religions (California, 2001).

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