The sacred gaze : religious visual culture in theory and practice /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2005.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=129018 |
Table of 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.