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The sacred gaze : religious visual culture in theory and practice / David Morgan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.Description: xv, 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0520242874 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0520243064 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 201/.67 22
LOC classification:
  • N7790 .M667 2005
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Contents:
Pt. 1. Questions and definitions. Defining visual culture -- Visual practice and the function of images -- The covenant with images -- Pt. 2. Images between cultures. The violence of seeing : idolatry and iconoclasm -- The circulation of images in mission history -- Pt. 3. 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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-309) and index.

Pt. 1. Questions and definitions. Defining visual culture -- Visual practice and the function of images -- The covenant with images -- Pt. 2. Images between cultures. The violence of seeing : idolatry and iconoclasm -- The circulation of images in mission history -- Pt. 3. 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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