Author: AMERICAN TRACT. SOCIETYPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033698242
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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TRACT PRIMER
Author: AMERICAN TRACT. SOCIETYPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033698242
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Tract Primer
Author: Frances Manwaring CaulkinsPublisher:
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Category : Christian education
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Annual Report of the American Tract Society
Author: American Tract Society (Boston, Mass.)Publisher:
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Category : Tract societies
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Annual Report of the American Tract Society
Author: American Tract SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tract societies
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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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.
A Cyclopedia of Missions
Author: Harvey NewcombPublisher:
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Faith in Reading
Author: David Paul NordPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199883890
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
In the twenty-first century, mass media corporations are often seen as profit-hungry money machines. It was a different world in the early days of mass communication in America. Faith in Reading tells the remarkable story of the noncommercial religious origins of our modern media culture. In the early nineteenth century, a few visionary entrepreneurs decided the time was right to reach everyone in America through the medium of print. Though they were modern businessmen, their publishing enterprises were not commercial businesses but nonprofit societies committed to the publication of traditional religious texts. Drawing on organizational reports and archival sources, David Paul Nord shows how the managers of Bible and religious tract societies made themselves into large-scale manufacturers and distributors of print. These organizations believed it was possible to place the same printed message into the hands of every man, woman, and child in America. Employing modern printing technologies and business methods, they were remarkably successful, churning out millions of Bibles, tracts, religious books, and periodicals. They mounted massive campaigns to make books cheap and plentiful by turning them into modern, mass-produced consumer goods. Nord demonstrates how religious publishers learned to work against the flow of ordinary commerce. They believed that reading was too important to be left to the "market revolution," so they turned the market on its head, seeking to deliver their product to everyone, regardless of ability or even desire to buy. Wedding modern technology and national organization to a traditional faith in reading, these publishing societies imagined and then invented mass media in America.
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