Morgan, David, 1957-

Visual piety : a history and theory of popular religious images / David Morgan. - Berkeley : University of California Press, �1998. - 1 online resource (xviii, 265 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-258) and index.

Introduction: Constructivism and the History of Visual Culture -- Material Things and the Social Construction of Reality -- The Aesthetics of Everyday Life -- Images and Their Worlds -- The Practice of Visual Piety -- High and Low -- The Aesthetic of Disinterestedness -- Toward an Aesthetic of Popular Religious Art -- The 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 -- The Masculinity of Christ -- The Image of Male Friendship: Jonathan and David -- The Christology of Friendship and Twentieth-Century Visual Piety -- Reading the Face of Jesus -- The Head of Christ in Catholic and Lutheran Response -- The Discourse of Hidden Images -- Avant-Garde and Popular -- Domestic Devotion and Ritual -- The 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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