Tangaza University Library

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

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