Sacred Gaze Religious Visual Culture in Theory and Practice

Name: Sacred Gaze Religious Visual Culture in Theory and Practice
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ISBN: 9780520243064

ISBN-10: 0520243064

ISBN-13: 9780520243064

Edition: 2005

Authors: David Morgan

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"Sacred gaze" denotes any way of seeing that invests its object --an image, a person, a time, a place--with spiritual significance. Drawing from many different fields, David Morgan investigates key aspects of vision and imagery in a variety of religious traditions. His lively, innovative book explores how viewers absorb and process religious imagery and how their experience contributes to the social, intellectual, and perceptual construction of reality. Ranging widely from thirteenth-century Japan and eighteenth-century Tibet to contemporary America, Thailand, and Africa,The Sacred Gazediscusses the religious functions of images and the tools viewers use to interpret them. Morgan questions…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/31/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 333
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Contents List of Illustrations


Preface


Introduction



Questions and Definitions



Defining Visual Culture



Visual Practice and the Function of Images



The Covenant with Images



Images Between Cultures



The Violence of Seeing: Idolatry and Iconoclasm



The Circulation of Images in Mission History



The Social Life of Pictures



Engendering Vision: Absent Fathers and Women with Beards



National Icons: Bibles, Flags, and Jesus in American Civil Religion


Conclusion


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index