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Author Morgan, David, 1957-

Title Visual piety : a history and theory of popular religious images / David Morgan.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [1998]
©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 265 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-258) and index.
Contents Introduction: Constructivism and the History of Visual Culture -- Material Things and the Social Construction of Reality -- Aesthetics of Everyday Life -- Images and Their Worlds -- Practice of Visual Piety -- High and Low -- Aesthetic of Disinterestedness -- Toward an Aesthetic of Popular Religious Art -- Psychology of Recognition -- Interactivity in the Reception of Popular Religious Images -- Empathy and Sympathy in the History of Visual Piety -- Catholic Visual Piety from the Late Middle Ages to the Modern Period -- Jonathan Edwards and the Aesthetic of Piety -- Sympathy and Benevolence in Nineteenth-Century American Protestantism -- "Home-Sympathy" and Christian Nurture -- Masculinity of Christ -- Image of Male Friendship: Jonathan and David -- Christology of Friendship and Twentieth-Century Visual Piety -- Reading the Face of Jesus -- Head of Christ in Catholic and Lutheran Response -- Discourse of Hidden Images -- Avant-Garde and Popular -- Domestic Devotion and Ritual -- Christian Home: A Domestic Description of the Sacred -- Domestic Ritual and Images -- Memory and the Sacred -- Space and Time -- Memory and the Sacred -- Modes of Remembrance: Narrative and Anecdotal Memory -- Conclusion: Religious Images and the Social Construction of Everyday Life -- Letters and Demographics.
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Subject Spirituality -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Spirituality.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Spirituality -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Spirituality -- History.
Christian art and symbolism -- United States.
Christian art and symbolism.
Christian art and symbolism -- Modern period, 1500-
Christian art and symbolism.
Popular culture -- United States.
Popular culture.
United States -- Religious life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Geschiedenis (vorm)
Other Form: Print version: Morgan, David, 1957- Visual piety. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998 0520209788 (DLC) 97014354 (OCoLC)36842356
ISBN 9780520923133 (electronic book)
0520923138 (electronic book)
0585266816 (electronic book)
9780585266817 (electronic book)
0520209788 (cloth ; alkaline paper)