The embodied eye : religious visual culture and the social life of feeling / David Morgan.

By:

Morgan, David, 1957- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2017Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type:

text
still image

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520952140
0520952146

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Embodied eyeDDC classification:

204.2019 23

LOC classification:

BL53 .M66 2017

Online resources:

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Contents:

Vision and embodiment -- The body in question -- Ways of seeing -- Icon and interface -- Matter of the heart: touching and seeing -- The look of sympathy: feeling and seeing -- The enchantment of media: hearing and seeing -- At the cusp of invisibility: visions, dreams, and images.

Summary: Morgan builds on his previous work to offer a systematically integrated theory of the study of religion as visual culture. He 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.

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Previously issued in print: 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Morgan builds on his previous work to offer a systematically integrated theory of the study of religion as visual culture. He 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.