The sacred gaze
Subtitle: religious visual culture in theory and practice
By: David Morgan.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Art and religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-309) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Questions and definitions. Defining visual culture; title: Visual practice and the function of images; title: The covenant with images; title: Pt. 2. Images between cultures. The violence of seeing : idolatry and iconoclasm; title: The circulation of images in mission history; title: Pt. 3. The social life of pictures. Engendering vision : absent fathers and women with beards; title: National icons : Bibles, flags, and Jesus in American civil religion.