The sacred gaze :
Morgan, David, 1957-
The sacred gaze : religious visual culture in theory and practice / David Morgan. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005. - xv, 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
0520242874 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520243064 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2004013929
Art and religion.
N7790 / .M667 2005
201/.67
The sacred gaze : religious visual culture in theory and practice / David Morgan. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005. - xv, 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
0520242874 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520243064 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2004013929
Art and religion.
N7790 / .M667 2005
201/.67