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The Embodied Eye: Religious Visual Culture and the Social Life of Feeling
David Morgan
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Description for The Embodied Eye: Religious Visual Culture and the Social Life of Feeling
Paperback. Offers an integrated theory of the study of religion as visual culture. Providing key tools for scholars across disciplines studying the materiality of religions, this title gives an overview including case studies of the ways seeing is related to touching, hearing, feeling, and such ephemeral experiences as dreams, imagination, and visions. Num Pages: 280 pages, 50 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: AGR; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390. Religious Visual Culture and the Social Life of Feeling. 280 pages, illustrations. Offers an integrated theory of the study of religion as visual culture. Providing key tools for scholars across disciplines studying the materiality of religions, this title gives an overview including case studies of the ways seeing is related to touching, hearing, feeling, and such ephemeral experiences as dreams, imagination, and visions. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AGR; HRA. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 18. Weight: 390.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
390g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520272231
SKU
V9780520272231
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About David Morgan
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).
Reviews for The Embodied Eye: Religious Visual Culture and the Social Life of Feeling
"This rewarding book will provoke thought and re-vision... Highly recommended." Choice "Excellent analysis of the social dynamics of the visual field."
Monique Scheer, Universitat Tubingen Journal Of Religion In Europe "Morgan's clever and penetrating academic analysis of case studies provides his text with profundity and interest."
Jeremy W. H. Arnold Religious Studies Review "A first-rate work of scholarship... ... Read more
Monique Scheer, Universitat Tubingen Journal Of Religion In Europe "Morgan's clever and penetrating academic analysis of case studies provides his text with profundity and interest."
Jeremy W. H. Arnold Religious Studies Review "A first-rate work of scholarship... ... Read more