The embodied eye
Subtitle: religious visual culture and the social life of feeling
By: David Morgan
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780520272224; 9780520272231
Subjects: Religious Psychology; Art and religion; Religious aspects; Senses and sensation; Experience (Religion); Vision
Description: "David Morgan builds on his previous groundbreaking work to offer this new, systematically integrated theory of the study of religion as visual culture. Providing key tools for scholars across disciplines studying the materiality of religions, Morgan gives an accessibly written theoretical overview including case studies of the ways seeing is related to touching, hearing, feeling, and such ephemeral experiences as dreams, imagination, and visions. The case studies explore both the high and low of religious visual culture: Catholic traditions of the erotic Sacred Heart of Jesus, the unrecognizability of the Virgin in the Fatima apparitions, the prehistory of Warner Sallman's face of Jesus, and more."--Cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Vision and embodiment; title: The body in question; title: Ways of seeing; title: Icon and interface; title: Matter of the heart: touching and seeing; title: The look of sympathy: feeling and seeing; title: The enchantment of media: hearing and seeing; title: At the cusp of invisibility: visions, dreams, and images.