The sacred gaze religious visual culture in theory and practice /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morgan, David, 1957-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
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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.