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The sacred gaze [electronic resource] : religious visual culture in theory and practice / David Morgan.

By: Morgan, David, 1957-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005Description: xv, 318 p. : ill.Subject(s): Art and religion | Idols and imagesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 201/.67 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.