Word and Light: Seeing, Hearing, and Religious Discourse

by David Chidester

Word and Light brings religious discourse back to its senses in this provocative examination of the importance of sight and sound to religious symbols, myths, rituals, and traditions. The book examines the unexpected implications of three theses. First, religious symbols, particularly the perceptual symbols of word and light, are grounded in the senses of hearing and seeing. Second, the senses of sight and hearing generate different ranges of symbolic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025201863X
• ISBN13: 9780252018633
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"