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Visual piety a history and theory of popular religious images
Record details
- ISBN: 9780520923133 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0520923138 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0585266816 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780585266817 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0520209788 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (xviii, 265 pages) : illustrations - Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-258) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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