Visual Pietyhistory Theory Of Popular Religious

Author : David Morgan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520219325
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visual Piety written by David Morgan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-09-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from the fields of music, sociology, theology, philosophy, psychology, and aesthetics, VISUAL PIETY is the first book to bring to specialist and lay reader alike an understanding of religious imagery's place in the social formation and maintenance of everyday American life--from Warner Sallman's 'Head of Christ" to velvet renditions of DaVinci's "Last Supper" to prayer card illustrations, and much more. 69 illustrations.

Author : david morgan
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Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visual Piety:history & Theory of Popular Religious written by david morgan and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Morgan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520938305
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Gaze written by David Morgan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 discusses the religious functions of images and the tools viewers use to interpret them. Morgan questions how fear and disgust of images relate to one another and explains how scholars study the long and evolving histories of images as they pass from culture to culture. An intriguing strand of the narrative details how images have helped to shape popular conceptions of gender and masculinity. The opening chapter considers definitions of "visual culture" and how these relate to the traditional practice of art history. Amply illustrated with more than seventy images from diverse religious traditions, this masterful interdisciplinary study provides a comprehensive and accessible resource for everyone interested in how religious images and visual practice order space and time, communicate with the transcendent, and embody forms of communion with the divine. The Sacred Gaze is a vital introduction to the study of the visual culture of religions.

Author : David Morgan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520272226
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Embodied Eye written by David Morgan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exploring a dazzling variety of religious imagery, David Morgan shows how vision functions as an active, physical process, embedded in bodily experience and profoundly shaped by social practice. Morgan's bold, thoughtful interpretations will fascinate art historians and students of visual culture as well as historians of religion.” -Pepe Karmel, Department of Art History, New York University "The Embodied Eye is an important and truly groundbreaking book. It represents a substantive and quite fascinating extension of David Morgan's previous work- especially as it impressively shows us how 'seeing' is the primary medium of social life, and materially integrates the body of the individual and the body of the group. Morgan is unquestionably the pioneering theorist in the whole emergent field of Visual and Culture Studies as it relates to religion and art." -Norman Girardot, University Distinguished Professor, Lehigh University “Under David Morgan’s inspiring guidance, readers are taken on a dazzling journey through religious images that mediate worlds of faith. Embedding vision in the body, this book stands out with its thought-provoking approach to religious media as material and embodied interfaces that underpin the social construction of the sacred.” -Birgit Meyer, Professor of Religious Studies, Utrecht University

Author : David Morgan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520286952
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forge of Vision written by David Morgan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Religions teach their adherents how to see and feel at the same time, so learning to see is not a disembodied process but one hammered out on the forge of human need, social relations, and material practice. Therefore, religions may be studied through the lens of salient visual themes. This book tells a history of Catholic and Protestant Christianity since the sixteenth century by selecting visual themes that have shaped the development of the religion throughout the modern era. Chapters examine a variety of visual practices, including imagination, envisioning nationhood, the likeness of Jesus, modern art as a spiritual quest, the material life of words, and the importance of images for education, devotion, worship, and domestic life."--Provided by publisher.

Author : David Morgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195130294
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Protestants & Pictures written by David Morgan and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1999 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In exploring the rise of this culture, author David Morgan shows how Protestants used mass-produced images to dedicate religious revival, proselytism, mass education, and domestic nurture to the aim of national renewal."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004361561
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Arts: History and Method written by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Religion and the Arts: History and Method, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona analyses the origins and methodological journey of this field though concerns with repatriation, museum exhibitions, and globalization, to offer an indispensable introduction to study of the field.

Author : Maya Balakirsky Katz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521191637
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Visual Culture of Chabad written by Maya Balakirsky Katz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-11 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first full-length study of a complex visual tradition associated with the Hasidic movement of Chabad.

Author : Bonifatia Gesche
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 0884144240
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theology and Anthropology in the Book of Sirach written by Bonifatia Gesche and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New research on Sirach for scholars and students The present volume of English and German essays includes the proceedings of an international conference held in Eichstaett, Germany, in 2017. Themes of creation, emotions, life, death, wisdom, knowledge, the individual and society, family, gender, mercy, justice, and freedom are but a few of the topics that contributors explore in this new collection. Essays explore the rich intertextual connections between Sirach and other biblical texts. Features: Attention to theological distinctions presented in the Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions of the book of Sirach Examination of the reception of Sirach in the New Testament and the early modern era English abstracts for German-language essays and German abstracts for English-language essays

Author : Christian von Scheve
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135113325X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Affect and Emotion in Multi-Religious Secular Societies written by Christian von Scheve and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotions have moved center stage in many contemporary debates over religious diversity and multicultural recognition. As in other contested fields, emotions are often one-sidedly discussed as quintessentially subjective and individual phenomena, neglecting their social and cultural constitution. Moreover, emotionality in these debates is frequently attributed to the religious subject alone, disregarding the affective anatomy of the secular. This volume addresses these shortcomings, bringing into conversation a variety of disciplinary perspectives on religious and secular affect and emotion. The volume emphasizes two analytical perspectives: on the one hand, chapters take an immanent perspective, focusing on subjective feelings and emotions in relation to the religious and the secular. On the other hand, chapters take a relational perspective, looking at the role of affect and emotion in how the religious and the secular constitute one another. These perspectives cut across the three main parts of the volume: the first one addressing historical intertwinements of religion and emotion, the second part emphasizing affects, emotions, and religiosity, and the third part looking at specific sensibilities of the secular. The thirteen chapters provide a well-balanced composition of theoretical, methodological, and empirical approaches to these areas of inquiry, discussing both historical and contemporary cases.