LEADER 02662nam 22004573u 450 001 9910457757803321 005 20210114014835.0 010 $a1-59734-946-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000354385 035 $a(EBL)227341 035 $a(OCoLC)58728584 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC227341 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000354385 100 $a20131223d2005 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 200 14$aThe Sacred Gaze$b[electronic resource] $eReligious Visual Culture in Theory and Practice /$fDavid Morgan 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (335 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-24306-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 305-309) and index. 327 $aContents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Part One: Questions and Definitions; 1. Defining Visual Culture; 2. Visual Practice and the Function of Images; 3. The Covenant with Images; Part Two: Images between Cultures; 4. The Violence of Seeing: Idolatry and Iconoclasm; 5. The Circulation of Images in Mission History; Part Three: The Social Life of Pictures; 6. Engendering Vision: Absent Fathers and Women with Beards; 7. National Icons: Bibles, Flags, and Jesus in American Civil Religion; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index 330 $a""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