The Embodied Eye: Religious Visual Culture and the Social Life of Feeling

by David O. Morgan and David Morgan

Book Overview

David Morgan builds on his previous groundbreaking work to offer this new, systematically integrated theory of the study of religion as visual culture. Providing key tools for scholars across disciplines studying the materiality of religions, Morgan 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520272234
• ISBN13: 9780520272231
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"