The sacred gaze religious visual culture in theory and practice
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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University of California Press
2005
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| Beschreibung: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 Includes bibliographical references and index 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 "Sacred gaze" denotes any way of seeing that invests its object - an image, a person, a time, a place - with spiritual significance. Drawing from many different fields, David Morgan investigates key aspects of vision and imagery in a variety of religious traditions. His lively, innovative book explores how viewers absorb and process religious imagery and how their experience contributes to the social, intellectual, and perceptual construction of reality. Ranging widely from thirteenth-century Japan and eighteenth-century Tibet to contemporary America, Thailand, and Africa, The Sacred Gaze disc |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 318 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0520242874 0520243064 0520925610 0520938305 1282763148 1597349461 9780520242876 9780520243064 9780520925618 9780520938304 9781282763142 9781597349468 |