Author: United States. Department of Education. Educational Research LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Early American Textbooks, 1775-1900
Author: United States. Department of Education. Educational Research LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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The Sacred Gaze
Author: David MorganPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520938305
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"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.
Annual Report of the American Tract Society
Author: American Tract Society (Boston, Mass.)Publisher:
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Category : Tract societies
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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The Lure of Images
Author: David MorganPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000158306
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
This is the history of the relationship between mass produced visual media and religion in the United States. It is a journey from the 1780s to the present - from early evangelical tracts to teenage witches and televangelists, and from illustrated books to contemporary cinema. David Morgan explores the cultural marketplace of public representation, showing how American religionists have made special use of visual media to instruct the public, to practice devotion and ritual, and to form children and converts. Examples include: studying Jesus as an American idol Jewish kitchens and Christian Parlors Billy Sunday and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the anti-slavery movement. This unique perspective reveals the importance of visual media to the construction and practice of sectarian and national community in a nation of immigrants old and new, and the tensions between the assimilation and the preservation of ethnic and racial identities. As well as the contribution of visual media to the religious life of Christians and Jews, Morgan shows how images have informed the perceptions and practices of other religions in America, including New Age, Buddhist and Hindu spirituality, and Mormonism, Native American Religions and the Occult.
Annual Report of the American Tract Society
Author: American Tract SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tract societies
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Catalogue of the Library of the Meadville Theological School
Author: Meadville Theological SchoolPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Annual Report of the Pennsylvania Agency of the American Tract Society
Author: American Tract Society. Pennsylvania BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tract societies
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Early American Textbooks, 1775-1900
Author: Educational Research Library (United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: American Tract SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tract societies
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Report
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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