Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., The University of Chicago 1990
  • M.A., University of Arizona 1984
  • B.A., Concordia College 1980
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Chair of the Deaprtment of Religious Studies, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016 - 2019
  • Chair in the Department of Religious Studies, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2013 - 2016
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • JUL 24, 2018

    Duke Magazine

    We Still Believe in Enchantment. David Morgan Explains Why

  • JUN 27, 2018

    Duke Magazine

    David Morgan on the Continuing Allure of Enchantment

  • MAY 9, 2018

    Fashion Meets Religion in ‘Heavenly Bodies’

  • OCT 28, 2015

    Catholic Courier, Catholic News Service

    Book examines importance, influence and interpretations of Vatican II

  • APR 24, 2014

    Washington Post, Associated Press

    Crusades fought, e-Bay bids sought for relics
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  Awards & Honors

  • 2005 Elected Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. Unknown. December 2008
  • 2008 Elected Member, American Antiquarian Society. American Antiquarian Society. December 2008
  • Annual award in Professional and Scholarly Publishing for 1999. Association of American Publishers. 1999
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • United States of America (Country) 

  • Research

    • Europe (Continent) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Material Religion: State of the Art awarded by Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. 2015
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  Fellowships, Supported Research, & Other Grants

  • Research & Travel Grant awarded by Stichting Porticus, Amsterdam 2004 - 2005
  • NEH Humanities Fellowship awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities 2001 - 2002
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and Humanities awarded by J. Paul Getty 1996 - 1997
  • Pew Postdoctoral Fellowship in Religion and American History awarded by Yale University 1994 - 1995
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Morgan, D. Images at work: The material culture of enchantment, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190272111.001.0001.
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    • Morgan, D. The Forge of Vision: A Visual History of Modern Christianity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015.
    • Van Rompay, L., S. Miglarese, and D. Morgan. The long shadow of vatican II: Living faith and negotiating authority since the second vatican council, 2015.
    • Morgan, David. The Embodied Eye: Religious Visual Culture and the Social Life of Feeling. University of California Press, 2012.
    • Morgan, D. Key words in religion, media and culture, 2008. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203894071.
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    • Morgan, D. Key words in religion, media and culture, 2008. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203894071.
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    • Morgan, D., and J. Elkins, eds. Re-enchantment. Vol. 7. New York: Routledge, 2008.
    • Morgan, David. The Sacred Heart of Jesus: The Visual Evolution of a Devotion. Amsterdam University Press, 2008.
    • Morgan, David. The Lure of Images: A History of Religion and Visual Media in America. Routledge, 2007.
    • Morgan, D. The sacred gaze: Religious visual culture in theory and practice, 2005.
    • Morgan, D., and S. Promey, eds. The Visual Culture of American Religions. Taylor & Francis US, 2001.
    • Morgan, David, and Sally M. Promey. Exhibiting the Visual Culture of American Religions. Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, 2000.
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    • Morgan, David. Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production, 1999.
    • Morgan, David. Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images, 1998.
    • Morgan, D., ed. Icons of American Protestantism. Yale University Press, 1996.
    • Morgan, D., L. Van Rompay, and S. Miglarese, eds. The Long Shadow of Vatican II. Authority, Faith, and Church since the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), n.d.

  • Academic Articles

    • Gilchrist, R., and D. Morgan. “Archaeology, Heritage, And The Material Study Of Religion.” Material Religion 16, no. 4 (August 4, 2020): 511–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2020.1794596.
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    • Morgan, David. “Sensual Religion: Religion and the Five Senses.” Journal of Contemporary Religion 35, no. 2 (May 3, 2020): 364–66. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2020.1766230.
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    • Morgan, D. “A generative entanglement: Word and image in Roman catholic devotional practice.” Entangled Religions 11, no. 3 (January 1, 2020). https://doi.org/10.13154/er.11.2020.8443.
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    • Morgan, D. “Soldier Statues and Empty Pedestals: Public Memory in the Wake of the Confederacy.” Material Religion 14, no. 1 (January 2, 2018): 153–57. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2017.1418231.
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    • Morgan, D. “The subject in question.” Journal of Material Culture 22, no. 4 (December 1, 2017): 476–84. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183517740008.
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    • Morgan, D. “Defining the sacred in fine art and devotional imagery.” Religion 47, no. 4 (October 2, 2017): 641–62. https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2017.1361587.
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    • Morgan, D. “The Visual Piety of the Sacred Heart.” Material Religion 13, no. 2 (April 3, 2017): 233–36. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2017.1302127.
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    • Morgan, D. “Materializing the study of religion.” Religion 46, no. 4 (October 1, 2016): 640–43. https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2016.1210395.
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    • morgan, D. “On the nature of collecting.” Material Religion 12, no. 3 (July 27, 2016): 375–77. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2016.1192154.
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    • Morgan, D. “The Materiality of Sacred Economies.” Material Religion 11, no. 3 (July 3, 2015): 387–91. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2015.1082723.
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    • Morgan, David. “Religious Objects in Museums: Private Lives and Public Duties.” Journal of Contemporary Religion 29, no. 2 (May 4, 2014): 359–60. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2014.903680.
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    • Meyer, B., D. Morgan, C. Paine, and S. Brent Plate. “Material religion's first decade.” Material Religion 10, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 105–10. https://doi.org/10.2752/175183414X13909887177628.
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    • Morgan, David. “The Ecology of Images: Seeing and the Study of Religion.” Religion and Society 5, no. 1 (January 1, 2014). https://doi.org/10.3167/arrs.2014.050106.
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    • Morgan, D. “Religion and media: A critical review of recent developments.” Critical Research on Religion 1, no. 3 (December 1, 2013): 347–56. https://doi.org/10.1177/2050303213506476.
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    • Morgan, David. “Religion and Media: A Critical Review of Recent Developments.” Critical Research on Religion: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1 (December 2013): 47–56.
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    • Morgan, D. “Mediation or mediatisation: The history of media in the study of religion.” Culture and Religion 12, no. 2 (June 1, 2011): 137–52. https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2011.579716.
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    • Meyer, B., D. Morgan, C. Paine, and S. Brent Plate. “Introduction: Key words in material religion.” Material Religion 7, no. 1 (March 1, 2011): 4–9. https://doi.org/10.2752/175183411X12968355481737.
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    • Morgan, David. “Thing.” Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief 7, no. 1 (March 1, 2011): 140–46. https://doi.org/10.2752/175183411X12968355482411.
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    • Morgan, David. “The Emotional Technology of Evangelicalism.” American Art 25 (2011): 13–15.
    • Morgan, David. “The look of sympathy: religion, visual culture, and the social life of feeling.” Material Religion 5, no. 2 (July 2009): 132–54. https://doi.org/10.2752/174322009x12448040551567.
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    • Morgan, D. “The materiality of cultural construction.” Material Religion 4, no. 2 (December 1, 2008): 228–29. https://doi.org/10.2752/175183408X328334.
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    • Morgan, D. “Exhibition review: The critical view.” Material Religion 3, no. 1 (December 1, 2007): 135–43. https://doi.org/10.2752/174322007780095753.
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    • Corrigan, J., D. Morgan, M. Silk, and R. H. Williams. “Forum: Electronic media and the study of American religion.” Religion and American Culture 16, no. 1 (January 1, 2006): 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1525/rac.2006.16.1.1.
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    • Morgan, D. “Response to spackman, "reconsidering 'kitsch'".” Material Religion 1, no. 3 (January 1, 2005): 417–19. https://doi.org/10.2752/174322005778053998.
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    • Morgan, D. “Visual religion.” Religion 30, no. 1 (January 1, 2000): 41–53. https://doi.org/10.1006/reli.1999.0228.
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    • Morgan, D. “German character and artistic form: The cultural politics of German art theory, 1773-1814.” European Romantic Review 6, no. 2 (December 1, 1996): 183–212. https://doi.org/10.1080/10509589608570006.
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  • Book Sections

    • Van Rompay, L., S. Miglarese, and D. Morgan. “Epilogue.” In The Long Shadow of Vatican II: Living Faith and Negotiating Authority Since the Second Vatican Council, 128–37, 2015.
    • Morgan, D. “The Senses in Religion: Migrations of Sacred and Sensory Values.” In A Cultural History of the Senses, edited by Jerry P. Toner, Constance Classen, Anne C. Vila, Richard G. Newhauser, and David Howes, 89–111. London: Berg, 2014.
    • Morgan, D. “The Image of the Protestant Bible in America.” In The Bible in the Public Square, edited by Mark A. Chancey, Carol Meyers, and Eric M. Meyers, 93–120. Society of Biblical Literature, 2014.
    • Morgan, D. “Reflection: Religious tracts in the eighteenth century.” In Media, Religion and Culture: An Introduction, 84–85, 2014.
    • Morgan, David. “Kimsooja and the Art of Place.” In Kimsooja: Unfolding, 115–23. Vancouver Art Gallery, 2013.
    • Morgan, David. “Art, Material Culture, and Lived Religion.” In The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts, edited by Frank Burch Brown. Oxford University Press, 2013.
    • Morgan, D. “Finding fabiola: Visual piety in religious life.” In Religion, Media and Culture: A Reader, 171–81, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203805657-24.
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    • Morgan, David. “Rhetoric of the Heart: Figuring the Body in Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.” In Things: Material Religion and the Topography of Divine Spaces, 90–111. Fordham University Press, 2012.
    • Morgan, David. “The Look of the Sacred.” In Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies, edited by Robert A. Orsi, 296–318. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
    • Morgan, David. “Religion and Visuality in America: Material Economies of the Sacred.” In Cambridge History of Religions in America, 3 Vols., edited by Stephen Stein, 1:748–80. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
    • Morgan, David. “Thomas Kinkade and the History of Protestant Visual Culture in America.” In Thomas Kinkade: The Artist in the Mall, 29–53. Duke University Press, 2011.
    • Morgan, David. “Finding Fabiola.” In Media and Culture: A Reader, edited by Gordon Lynch and Jolyon Mitchell, 171–81. Routledge, 2011.
    • Morgan, David. “The Material Culture of Lived Religion: Visuality and Embodiment.” In Mind and Matter, edited by Johanna Vakkari, 14–31. Society of Art History, 2010.
    • Morgan, David. “Image, Art and Inspiration in Modern Apparitions.” In Looking Beyond: Images, Dreams, and Insights in Medieval Art and History, edited by Colum Hourihane, 265–82. Index of Christian Art, 2010.
    • Morgan, David. “Seeing Nationhood: Images of American Identity.” In Powers: Religion as a Social and Spiritual Force, edited by Meerten ter Borg and Jan Willem van Henten, 81–102. Fordham University Press, 2010.
    • Morgan, David. “Aura and the Inversion of Marian Pilgrimage: Fatima and Her Statues.” In Moved By Mary: Pilgrimage in the Modern World, edited by Jansen Hermkens and Jansen Notermans, pp.49-65, 2009.
    • Morgan, David. “American Holy Land: Tissot in the National Context.” In Prodigal Son: James Tissot and the “Life of Christ,” edited by Judith Dolkart, pp.48-65. Brooklyn Museum, 2009.
    • Morgan, David. “Painting as Visual Evidence.” In Using Visual Evidence, edited by Richard Howells and Robert Matson, pp.8-23. Open University Press, 2009.
    • Morgan, D. “Introduction: Religion, media, culture: The shape of the field,” 1–19, 2008. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203894071.
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    • Morgan, D. “Image.” In Key Words in Religion, Media and Culture, 96–110, 2008. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203894071.
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    • Morgan, D. “Images of the Passion and the History of Protestant Visual Piety in America.” In The Passion Story: From Visual Representation to Social Drama, edited by M. Kupfer, 131–45. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008.
    • Morgan, D. “The Study of Religion and Popular Culture: Prospects, Presuppositions, Procedures.” In Between Sacred and Profane: Researching Religion and Popular Culture, edited by G. Lynch, 21–33. London: IB Tauris, 2007.
    • Morgan, D. “The Visual Construction of the Sacred.” In Images and Communities The Visual Construction of the Social, edited by M. Stocchetti and J. Sumiala-Seppänen, 53–74. Helsinki: Gaudeamus-Helsinki University Press, 2007.
    • Holloway, D., and J. Beck, eds. “Absent Fathers and Women with Beards: Religion and Gender in Popular Imagery of the Nineteenth Century.” In American Visual Cultures, 39–47. London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005.
    • Morgan, D. “Manly Pain and Motherly Love: Mel Gibson’s Big Picture.” In After The Passion Is Gone: American Religious Consequences, edited by J. S. Landres and M. Berenbaum, 149–57. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press/Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
    • Morgan, D. “Catholic Visual Piety and The Passion of the Christ.” In Re-Viewing The Passion: Mel Gibson’s Film and Its Critics, edited by S. Brent, 85–96. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
    • Morgan, D. “Toward a Modern Historiography of Art and Religion.” In Reluctant Partners: Art and Religion in Dialogue, edited by E. Heller, 16–47. New York: The Gallery at the American Bible Society, 2004.
    • Morgan, D. “Visual Media and the Case of Ethiopian Protestantism.” In =Belief in Media: Media and Christianity in a Cultural Perspective, edited by M. Hess, P. Horsfield, and A. Medrano, 91–106. Aldershot, Hampshire, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2004.
    • Morgan, D. “Protestant Visual Piety and the Aesthetics of American Mass Culture.” In Mediating Religion: Conversations  in Media, Religion and Culture, edited by J. Mitchell and S. Marriage, 107–20. London: T&T Clark, 2003.
    • Morgan, D. “Protestant Visual Practice and American Mass Culture.” In Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media: Explorations in Media, Religion and Culture, edited by S. Hoover and L. Schofield Clark, 37–62. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
    • Morgan, D. “The Image of Religion in American LIFE, 1936-1951.” In Looking at LIFE, edited by E. Doss, 139–57. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001.
    • Morgan, D. “For Christ and the Republic: Religious Illustration and the History of Literacy in Nineteenth-Century America.” In The Visual Culture of American Religions, edited by D. Morgan and S. M. Promey, 49–67. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
    • Morgan, D. “The Masculinity of Jesus in Popular Religious Art.” In Men’s Bodies, Men’s Gods: Male Identities in a [Post]Christian Culture, edited by B. Krondorfer, 251–66. New York University Press, 1996.
    • Morgan, D. “Warner Sallman and the Visual Culture of American Protestantism.” In Icons of American Protestantism: The Art of Warner Sallman, edited by D. Morgan, 25–60. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
    • Morgan, D. “’Would Jesus Have Sat for a Portrait?’ The Likeness of Christ in the Popular Reception of Sallman’s Art.” In Icons of American Protestantism: The Art of Warner Sallman, edited by D. Morgan, 181–206. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
    • Morgan, D. “Kuvat, sanat ja kääntyminen—painetun sanan kultturi ja uskonnollisten kuvien levittäminen protestanttisen lähestystyön historiassa [Print Culture and the Circulation of Imagery in Protestant Mission History].” In Pyhä Media [Pious Media], edited by J. Sumiala-Seppänen, 167–76. Atena Kustannus, n.d.

  • Other Articles

    • Meyer, B., D. Morgan, C. Paine, and S. B. Plate. “The origin and mission of Material Religion.” Religion, July 1, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.religion.2010.01.010.
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    • Morgan, D. “Liberty and Liberty Together,” June 10, 2009.
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    • Morgan, D. “The Materiality of Cultural Construction.” Material Religion, July 2008.
    • Morgan, D. “Materiality.” Encyclopedia of Missions and Missionaries. New York: Routledge, 2007.
    • Morgan, David. “Kimsooja and the Discipline of Looking.” Curator: The Museum Journal. Wiley, July 2006. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2151-6952.2006.tb00223.x.
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    • Morgan, David. “Reformed Theology and Visual Culture: The Protestant Imagination from Calvin to Edwards. By William A. Dyrness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xv + 342 pp. $85.00 cloth; $29.99 paper.” Church History. Cambridge University Press (CUP), June 2005. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009640700110492.
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    • Morgan, David. “Reviews of Books:From Meetinghouse to Megachurch: A Material and Cultural History Anne C. Loveland, Otis B. Wheeler.” The American Historical Review, February 2005. https://doi.org/10.1086/531151.
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    • Morgan, D. “The Image of the Image of the Image.” Image, June 2004.
    • Morgan, D. “Antigone’s Wall: Magadalena Abakanowicz and the Allure of Images.” Image, 2004.
    • Morgan, David. “The vicissitudes of seeing: Iconoclasm and idolatry.” Religion, April 2003. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0048-721X(03)00046-0.
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    • Morgan, D. “Spirit and Medium: The Video Art of Bill Viola.” Image, 2000.
    • Morgan, D. “Ambiguous Icons: The Art of Ed Paschke.” Image, 1997.
    • Morgan, D. “Empathy and the Experience of ‘Otherness’ in Pechstein’s Depictions of Women: The Expressionist Search for Immediacy.” The Smart Museum of Art Bulletin. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
    • Morgan, D. “Sallman’s Head of Christ: The History of an Image.” The Christian Century, October 7, 1992.
    • Morgan, D. “The Allure of Electronic Media and the Study of Religion.” Religion and American Culture, n.d.
    • Morgan, D. “Screen Media and Public Reflection about Religion in the College Classroom.” The Multifaith Media Project, The Hartley Film Foundation and Auburn Theological Seminary’s Center for Multifaith Education, n.d.
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  • Book Reviews

    • Morgan, David. “Roberta Gilchrist. 2020. Sacred heritage: monastic archaeology, identities, beliefs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-108-49654-7 hardback £75.” Antiquity. Antiquity Publications, June 2020. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.69.
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    • Morgan, David. “Image Acts: A Systematic Approach to Visual Agency.” Material Religion. Informa UK Limited, October 20, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2019.1633085.
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    • Morgan, David. “Religion: Material Dynamics.” Journal of Contemporary Religion. Informa UK Limited, September 2, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2019.1661610.
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    • Morgan, David. “Aesthetics of Religion: A Connective Concept, edited by Alexandra K. Grieser and Jay Johnston, Berlin and Boston, De Gruyter, 2017, xi + 497 pp., US$114.99 (hardback), ISBN 978 3 1104 6101 5.” Religion. Informa UK Limited, April 3, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721x.2019.1578942.
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    • Morgan, David. “How pictures complete us: the beautiful, the sublime, and the divine.” Material Religion. Informa UK Limited, January 2, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2017.1418228.
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    • Morgan, David. “Saints and Sacred Matter: the Cult of Relics in Byzantium and Beyond.” Material Religion. Informa UK Limited, October 27, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2016.1237748.
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    • Morgan, David. “Commun(icat)ing Bodies: Body as a Medium in Religious Symbol Systems.” Journal of Contemporary Religion. Informa UK Limited, May 3, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2016.1152696.
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    • Morgan, David. “Missionaries and Idols in Polynesia.” Material Religion. Informa UK Limited, April 2, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2016.1172774.
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    • Morgan, David. “Jay N. Price Temples for a Modern God: Religious Architecture in Postwar AmericaTemples for a Modern God: Religious Architecture in Postwar America. By Jay N. Price. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. ix+256.” History of Religions. University of Chicago Press, February 2015. https://doi.org/10.1086/678997.
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    • Morgan, David. “The Sensuous in the Counter-Reformation Church. Edited by Marcia B. Hall and Tracy E. Cooper. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xv + 339 pp. $99.00 cloth.” Church History. Cambridge University Press (CUP), December 2014. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009640714001395.
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    • Morgan, D. “Temples for a modern god: religious architecture in postwar America.” Choice Reviews Online, September 1, 2013. https://doi.org/10.5860/CHOICE.51-0093.
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    • Morgan, David. “Approaches to the Visual in Religion. Edited by Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati and Christopher Rowland.” International Journal for the Psychology of Religion. Informa UK Limited, July 2013. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508619.2012.728070.
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    • Morgan, David. “Review of Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon by Martin Kemp.” Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, March 1, 2013. https://doi.org/10.2752/175183413X13535214684375.
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    • Morgan, David. “Juliane Schmieglitz-Otten., ed. Die Celler Schlosskapelle: Kunstwelten, Politikwelten, Glaubenswelten. Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2012. 260 pp. €49.90. ISBN: 978–3–7774–7031–3.” Renaissance Quarterly. Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2013. https://doi.org/10.1086/675119.
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    • Morgan, David. “Celeste Brusati , Karl A. E. Enenkel , and Walter S. Melion, eds. The Authority of the Word: Reflecting on Image and Text in Northern Europe, 1400–1700. Emory University, Lovis Corinth Colloquia III. Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture 20. Leiden: Brill, 2012. xl + 708 pp. $245. ISBN: 978–90–04–21515–3.” Renaissance Quarterly. Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2012. https://doi.org/10.1086/668323.
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    • Morgan, David. “Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice: Architecture, Music, Acoustics. By Deborah Howard and Laura Moretti. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2010. xv + 368 pp. $55.00 cloth.” Church History. Cambridge University Press (CUP), December 2010. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009640710001241.
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    • Morgan, David. “Imaginary Friends: Representing Quakers in American Culture, 1650-1950.” Church History, June 2010. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640710000375.
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    • Morgan, David. “God's Strange Work: William Miller and the End of the World.” Journal of the Early Republic, 2009.
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    • Morgan, David. “Religion and the Making of Nat Turner's Virginia: Baptist Community and Conflict, 1740-1840.” Journal of the Early Republic, 2009.
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    • Morgan, David. “Bodies of Belief: Baptist Community in Early America.” Journal of the Early Republic, 2009.
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    • Morgan, David. “Our Distance from God: Studies of the Divine and the Mundane in Western Art and Music.” The American Historical Review, December 2008. https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr.113.5.1478.
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    • Morgan, David. “Seeing Things: Deepening Relations with Visual Artefacts.” Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, July 1, 2008. https://doi.org/10.2752/175183408X328389.
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    • Morgan, David. “[Book Review: The Internet and the Madonna: Religious Visionary Experience on the Web].” The Journal of Religion, July 2006. https://doi.org/10.1086/507752.
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    • Morgan, David. “Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture. By David Chidester. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xii + 294 pp. $50.00 cloth; $19.95 paper.” Church History, December 2005. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640700101295.
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    • Morgan, David, and Paul Eli Ivey. “Prayers in Stone: Christian Science Architecture in the United States, 1894-1930.” The Journal of American History, June 2001. https://doi.org/10.2307/2674978.
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• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • ARTHIST 844: Protestants and Pictures 2021
  • RELIGION 844: Protestants and Pictures 2021
  • RELIGION 996S: Teaching in Religion 2021
  • RELIGION 999: Special Readings 2021
  • ARTHIST 911: Religious Material Culture in Theory and Practice 2020
  • RELIGION 101: Introduction to Religious Studies 2020
  • RELIGION 911: Religious Material Culture in Theory and Practice 2020
  • RELIGION 996S: Teaching in Religion 2020
  • RELIGION 101: Introduction to Religious Studies 2019
  • RELIGION 494: Honors Research 2019
  • RELIGION 999: Special Readings 2019
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • “The Subject of Modern Art: Spiritualizing Art, Secularizing Religion” . Department of Religious Studies. Brown University. April 14, 2015  2015
  • “Framing Matter and Embodying Words: The Plasticity of Sacred Things in Shifting Taxonomies". Rice University. February 24, 2015  2015
  • “Visual Riffing: The Circulation of Images in Modern Media” and “Teaching with the Visual Arts in the Religious Studies Classroom”. Annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion. November 21, 2014 - 2014  2014
  • The Likeness of Jesus. Lipscomb University, Nashville. November 3, 2014  2014
  • The Look of Things to Come. 35th Arthur G. Keough Lectureship. Washington Adventist University, Tacoma Park, Maryland. October 22, 2014  2014
  • Matter on the Move: The Plasticity of Things in Shifting Taxonomies. international conference on "Christianity and the Limits of Materiality". University of Turku, Finland. September 25, 2014 - September 26, 2014  2014
  • Emotion and Imagination in Ritual Mediation. International Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture. University of Kent, Canterbury, England. August 9, 2014  2014
  • Phenomenology & Network Theory: A Collaborative Approach to the Study of Religion. April 4, 2014  2014
  • Phenomenology and Network Theory: A Collaborative Model. Boardman Lecture, and key note address for conference on “Religion and Material Culture” . University of Pennsylvania, Department of Religious Studies. April 4, 2014  2014
  • The Social Assemblage of Vision. April 9, 2013  2013
  • Visual Culture Analysis and Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling. November 17, 2012  2012
  • Likeness and Iconicity in Modern Images of Jesus. November 12, 2012  2012
  • Sacred Configurations: Visual Piety as Ways of Seeing. October 26, 2012  2012
  • Reticulating Vision: Visuality and the Study of Religion. October 18, 2012  2012
  • Moralizing Matter: Landscape as the Emplacement of Spirit, Essence, Ethos, Nation, and Other Vague Notions. September 13, 2012  2012
  • The Bible as Image in American Visual Culture. September 10, 2012  2012
  • Visual Studies and Embodiment. May 9, 2012  2012
  • Visual Piety and the Sacred: Networking Vision. May 2, 2012  2012
  • The Likeness of Jesus. April 16, 2012  2012
  • Visual Worlds. The 2012 Cadbury Lectures. March 7, 2012  2012
  • Protestant Visual Media in the Marketplace of Culture. March 1, 2012  2012
  • Religious Visual Culture and the History of Sacred Economies. October 8, 2011  2011
  • The Likeness of Christ in Art and Devotional Imagery. September 25, 2011  2011
  • Iconicity and Art in Modern Visual Media. June 16, 2011  2011
  • Recovering the Protestant Body. March 23, 2011  2011
  • “Enchantment, Disenchantment, Re-Enchantment”. November 18, 2010  2010
  • “Image and Apparition: Visualizing the Unseen”. November 18, 2010  2010
  • “Material Religion and the Sacred Gaze”. November 18, 2010  2010
  • “Materiality and the Study of Religion”. November 18, 2010  2010
  • “Sympathy, Empathy, Antipathy: The Visual Culture of Feeling in 19th Century America”. November 18, 2010  2010
  • “The Embodied Eye: Putting the Eyes Back in the Body”. November 18, 2010  2010
  • Methods of the study of visual culture. July 1, 2010  2010
  • The Embodied Eye. October 9, 2009  2009
  • Keynote address: "Image and Apparition: Visualizing the Unseen". September 17, 2009  2009
  • The Look of Sympathy: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Social Life of Feeling. July 25, 2009  2009
  • Keynote address: "Seeing in Groups: American Protestants and New Visual Media". May 7, 2009  2009
  • Embodied Vision: The Look of the Sacred. April 15, 2009  2009
  • The Look of the Sacred. May 16, 2008  2008
  • Religion, Media, Culture: The Shape of the Field. April 11, 2008  2008
  • “Religious Visual Culture and the Production of Visibility”. March 28, 2008  2008
  • “Looking Beyond the Modern Bubble: Medieval Art and the Study of Modern Visual Culture”. March 15, 2008  2008
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  Service to the Profession

  • Book manuscript evaluation. January 7, 2012  2012
  • Book manuscript evaluation. January 7, 2012  2012
  • Book manuscript evaluation. January 7, 2012  2012
  • Book manuscript evaluation. January 7, 2012  2012
  • Book manuscript evaluation. January 7, 2012  2012
  • Book manuscript evaluation. January 7, 2012  2012
  • Book manuscript evaluation. January 7, 2012  2012
  • Journal article evaluation. January 7, 2012  2012
  • Journal article evaluation. January 7, 2012  2012
  • Journal article evaluation. January 7, 2012  2012
  • Journal proposal evaluation. January 7, 2012  2012
  • panel respondent : Member of the American Academy of Religion. November 20, 2011  2011
  • organizer : Catholicism and the Visual Study of Religion. April 15, 2011  2011
  • book manuscript evaluator : manuscript evaluation. December 12, 2010  2010
  • book manuscript evaluator : manuscript evaluation. December 12, 2010  2010
  • co-editor : Book series editor. December 12, 2010  2010
  • member : Dissertation Committee. November 18, 2010  2010
  • committee member : Doctoral Exams. 2010  2010
  • referee : Book manuscript: Berg Publishers. October 13, 2009  2009
  • referee : Book manuscript: Cambridge University Press. October 13, 2009  2009
  • referee : Book manuscript: Columbia University Press. October 13, 2009  2009
  • referee : Book manuscript: Palgrave/Macmillan. October 13, 2009  2009
  • referee : Book manuscript: University Press of Kansas. October 13, 2009  2009
  • referee : Journal of Religion. October 13, 2009  2009
  • book manuscript for University of Chicago Press. November 30, 2008  2008
  • book manuscript for Macmillan Press. November 25, 2008  2008
  • referee : Book manuscript: Cornell University Press. October 13, 2008  2008
  • referee : Book manuscript: Routledge, London. October 13, 2008  2008
  • referee : Book manuscript: University of Chicago Press. October 13, 2008  2008
  • referee : Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. October 13, 2008  2008
  • convenor and organizer : What is Religion in the Study of Media, Religion, Culture. August 16, 2008  2008
  • Editor, Material Religion. 2008  2008
  • Editor, Material Religion. 2008  2008
  • Member, Editorial Board, "Religions in the Americas," Religion Compass. 2008 - May 2011  2008 - 2011
  • Member, International Advisory Board of VISOR. 2008 - 2011  2008 - 2011

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