The sacred gaze : religious visual culture in theory and practice - Morgan, David, 1957- (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-309) and index.
Keywords: Art and religion