The sacred gaze [electronic resource] : religious visual culture in theory and practice / David Morgan.
Material type: TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.Description: xv, 318 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 201/.67 22
- N7790 .M667 2005eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-309) 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.
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