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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Morgan, David, 1957- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Art and religion.
Art et religion.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Gaia & Earth Energies.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
Art and religion
Religion
Religiöse Kunst
Religieuze symboliek.
Beeldcultuur.
11.09 systematic religious studies: other.
Gaze.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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