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Pages: 240
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Religion, Art, and Visual Culture is a cross-cultural exploration of the study of visuality and the arts from a religious perspective. This forward looking and
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Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: David Morgan
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-09-01 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"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
The Visual Culture of American Religions
Language: en
Pages: 464
Authors: David Morgan
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis US

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Contemporary artists have often clashed with conservative American evangelicals, giving the impression that art and religion are completely at odds. These essay
The Embodied Eye
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: David Morgan
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-01 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"Exploring a dazzling variety of religious imagery, David Morgan shows how vision functions as an active, physical process, embedded in bodily experience and pr
Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: S. Brent Plate
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-07-08 - Publisher: Routledge

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Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics is an innovative and creative attempt to unsettle and reconceive the key concepts of religious studies through a readi