The sacred gaze: religious visual culture in theory and practice
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Berkeley, CA
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University of California Press
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Includes bibliographical references )p. 305-309( and index
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David Morgan
CONTENTS NOTE
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Pt. 1. Questions and definitions. Defining visual culture -- Visual practice and the function of images -- The covenant with images -- Pt. 2. Images between cultures. The violence of seeing : idolatry and iconoclasm -- The circulation of images in mission history -- Pt. 3. The social life of pictures. Engendering vision : absent fathers and women with beards -- National icons : Bibles, flags, and Jesus in American civil religion