TY - BOOK ID - 1631866 TI - The sacred gaze : religious visual culture in theory and practice AU - Morgan, David AU - University of California Press PY - 2005 SN - 0520242874 0520243064 9780520243064 DB - UniCat KW - Art and religion. KW - 246.5 KW - 7.046 KW - #VCV monografie 2005 KW - kunst KW - religieuze kunst KW - kunst en religie KW - kunsttheorie KW - 246.5 Emblematiek. Iconologie. Christelijke iconografie. Dodendans KW - Emblematiek. Iconologie. Christelijke iconografie. Dodendans KW - Art KW - Arts in the church KW - Religion and art KW - Religion KW - 7.046 Iconografie: mythologische-, religieuze-, epische voorstellingen. Legenden KW - Iconografie: mythologische-, religieuze-, epische voorstellingen. Legenden KW - Religious aspects KW - Iconography KW - Art and religion KW - Art et religion KW - Kunst en godsdienst KW - Religious studies UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1631866 AB - "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 fields, David Morgan investigates key aspects of vision and imagery in a variety of religious traditions. His lively, innovative book explores how viewers absorb and process religious imagery and how their experience contributes to the social, intellectual, and perceptual construction of reality. Ranging widely from thirteenth-century Japan and eighteenth-century Tibet to contemporary America, Thailand, and Africa, The Sacred Gaze discusses the religious functions of images and the tools viewers use to interpret them. Morgan questions how fear and disgust of images relate to one another and explains how scholars study the long and evolving histories of images as they pass from culture to culture. An intriguing strand of the narrative details how images have helped to shape popular conceptions of gender and masculinity. The opening chapter considers definitions of "visual culture" and how these relate to the traditional practice of art history. Amply illustrated with more than seventy images from diverse religious traditions, this masterful interdisciplinary study provides a comprehensive and accessible resource for everyone interested in how religious images and visual practice order space and time, communicate with the transcendent, and embody forms of communion with the divine. The Sacred Gaze is a vital introduction to the study of the visual culture of religions.Read less ER -