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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgan, David.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part One. Culture’s Two Bodies

CHAPTER 1 Vision and Embodiment

CHAPTER 2 The Body in Question

CHAPTER 3 Ways of Seeing

CHAPTER 4 Icon and Interface

Part Two. The Senses of Belief

CHAPTER 5 The Matter of the Heart: Touching and Seeing

CHAPTER 6 The Look of Sympathy: Feeling and Seeing

CHAPTER 7 The Enchantment of Media: Hearing and Seeing

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

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520952140

0520952146

9780520424555

0520424557

0-520-95214-6

OCLC:

1110714392