A01=David Morgan
Author_David Morgan
books about catholicism
books for history lovers
books for religious studies
books for reluctant readers
Category=AB
Category=AGR
Category=QR
Category=QRA
catholic traditions
discussion books
easy to read
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
evolution of religion
history of religion
jesus
learning from experts
politics
religion explained
religious culture
religious images and visuals
religious visual culture
scholars of religion
spiritual
study of religion
theories about religion
what is catholicism
Product details
- ISBN 9780520272224
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2012
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
David Morgan builds on his previous groundbreaking work to offer this new, systematically integrated theory of the study of religion as visual culture. Providing key tools for scholars across disciplines studying the materiality of religions, Morgan gives an accessibly written theoretical overview including case studies of the ways seeing is related to touching, hearing, feeling, and such ephemeral experiences as dreams, imagination, and visions. The case studies explore both the high and low of religious visual culture: Catholic traditions of the erotic Sacred Heart of Jesus, the unrecognizability of the Virgin in the Fatima apparitions, the prehistory of Warner Sallman's face of Jesus, and more. Basing the study of religious images and visual practices in the relationship between seeing and the senses, Morgan argues against reductionist models of "the gaze", demonstrating that vision is not something that occurs in abstraction, but is a fundamental way of embodying the human self.
David Morgan is Professor of Religion at Duke University. He is the author of several books, including The Sacred Gaze: Religious Visual Culture in Theory and Practice and Visual Piety (both from UC Press).
