Chapter · January 1, 2024
In this chapter, David Morgan proposes that images operate as transactional objects, connecting viewers to visual nodes within networks of images. To explore this, he examines the history of images of Saint Sebastian, a figure who has enjoyed veneration as ...
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Book · September 1, 2023
"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 tradi ...
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Journal ArticleIrish Theological Quarterly · August 1, 2021
It is often thought that since remote, rare, and ephemeral events such as apparitions are not available to the direct observation of scholars, the question of their nature as events must be set aside in scholarly inquiry. This results in a focus on meaning ...
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Chapter · May 11, 2020
This chapter seeks to model a method of material analysis that begins with an artefact, then moves outward from it and returns again and again, each time modifying the description and account of the object. As more and more comparative material is assemble ...
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Journal ArticleEntangled Religions · February 1, 2020
Devotional piety broadly depends on events that are not accessible for direct observation and commonly offer little, if anything, in the way of historical documentation. Sometimes the experiences to which devotion is directed in the veneration of saints is ...
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Book · January 1, 2020
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 ...
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Book · January 1, 2018
Advocates of the ideology of modern progress and rationalism are fond of regarding human beings as rational agents and the universe as a collection of inanimate things that obey laws and do not exhibit agency. Yet evidence of nonrational practices of encha ...
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Journal ArticleReligion · October 2, 2017
Beginning with a definition of the sacred as a two-fold process of making things special, which consists of accentuation and affiliation, this essay proceeds to argue that things are made sacred in devotional piety and in fine art in parallel ways that con ...
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Journal ArticleReligion · October 1, 2016
This response to Meyer’s work focuses attention on the materiality of studying religion and how the sociality of religious practice may be studied in material terms. The value of this approach and the manner in which it is conducted vary from more traditio ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2016
Discussion of the materiality of religion has become more common in years, resulting in a host of instructive studies ranging from the production and reception of objects, images, spaces, clothing and food to the study of practices, the senses and the hist ...
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Chapter · December 1, 2014
What did the past sound like, taste like, smell like? How did it look and feel? How did people make sense of the world through their senses? These are questions which are increasingly capturing the interest of historians. ...
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Chapter · July 21, 2014
Explore perceptions and interpretations of scripture in American politics, identity, popular culture, and public education Essays from the perspectives of American history, the history of ideas, film studies, visual studies, cultural ... ...
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Journal ArticleCritical Research on Religion · December 1, 2013
This article considers recent changes in the definition of religion and of media as the basis for framing the study of their relation to one another and recent research in the intersection they have come to form over the last two decades or so. The history ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2012
During the sixth century Fabiola was canonized and since then has been venerated as patroness of abused women. In the second half of the nineteenth century, her cult was revived among European Catholics, leading the painter Jean-Jacques Henner to produce a ...
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Book · June 30, 2008
The publication of Key Words in Religion, Media and Culture is a significant moment in the formation of this area of study, and sets a standard for cross-disciplinary collaboration and theoretical and methodological sophistication.
Translated into Farsi, ...
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Book · June 30, 2008
The publication of Key Words in Religion, Media and Culture is a significant moment in the formation of this area of study, and sets a standard for cross-disciplinary collaboration and theoretical and methodological sophistication.
Translated into Farsi, ...
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Book · 2008
This volume traces the unfolding visual biography of the sacred heart and shows how imagery documents the Devotion’s remarkable evolution. ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2008
The status of images in the history of many religions and in modern media is an embattled one and generally for a single reason: images are thought to be untrustworthy-they lie, cheat, and steal. Whether in Socrates or in the many critiques of images mount ...
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Book · January 1, 2008
In recent years, mediation has come to be studied as a range of religious practices in different cultural settings and historical periods around the world. The assumption at work in social and cultural criticism, theology, and mass communication studies be ...
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Book · May 31, 2005
"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 tradi ...
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Chapter · 2005
Illustrated throughout, the book combines a wide range of critical approaches and is made up of new essays by internationally renowned scholars. ...
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Book · 2001
These essays challenge this tension by investigating their long-standing relationship from the early-19th century to the present day. ...
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Journal ArticleArt Journal · January 1, 1998
In the sound and fury of recent “culture wars,” religion has often been reduced to the “religious right,” an audible, media-savvy, politically active slice of American Protestantism that emerged during the Reagan years. But religious life in the United Sta ...
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Book · 1996
This fascinating book focuses on the production, marketing, and reception of one such set of religious illustrations, the art of Warner Sallman (1892-1968), whose '1940 Head Of Christ' has been reproduced an estimated five hundred million ... ...
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