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The sacred gaze : religious visual culture in theory and practice /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.