The Embodied Eye - Religious Visual Culture and the Social Life of Feeling

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-520-27222-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 496 g

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 face of Jesus, and more. Basing the study of religious images and visual practices in the relationship between seeing and the senses, Morgan argues against reductionist models of "the gaze," demonstrating that vision is not something that occurs in abstraction, but is a fundamental way of embodying the human self.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morgan, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christliche Kunst und Kultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Christliche Kunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part One. Culture's Two Bodies
1. Vision and Embodiment

2. The Body in Question

3. Ways of Seeing

4. Icon and Interface

Part Two. The Senses of Belief
5. The Matter of the Heart: Touching and Seeing

6. The Look of Sympathy: Feeling and Seeing

7. The Enchantment of Media: Hearing and Seeing

8. At the Cusp of Invisibility: Visions, Dreams, and Images

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Morgan, David
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).