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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520952140
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BL53 .E436 2017
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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 bibliographies and index.

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.

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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