文档介绍：The Sacred Gaze
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the
generous contribution to this book provided
by the Art Endowment Fund of the University
of California Press Associates.
The Sacred Gaze
Religious Visual Culture in Theory
and Practice
David Morgan
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley / Los Angeles / London
University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press, Ltd.
London, England
© 2005 by The Regents of the University of California
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Morgan, David.
The sacred gaze : religious visual culture in theory and
practice / David Morgan.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0–520–24287–4 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 0–520–24306–4
(pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Art and religion. I. Title.
2005
201'.67—dc22 2004013929
Manufactured in the United States of America
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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of
ANSI/NISO –1992 (R 1997) (Permanence of Paper).
To my teachers, whose patience matched the
stature of their calling.
Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xiii
Introduction 1
part one: questions and definitions
1. Defining Visual Culture 25
2. Visual Practice and the Function of Images 48
3. The Covenant with Images 75
part two: images between cultures
4. The Violence of Seeing: Idolatry and Iconoclasm 115
5. The Circulation of Images in Mission History 147
part three: the social life of pictures
6. Engendering Vision: Absent Fathers and Women
with Beards 191
7. National Icons: Bibles, Flags, and Jesus in American
Civil Religion 220
Conclusion 257
Notes 261
Select Bibliography 305
Index 311