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"Exploring a dazzling variety of religious imagery, David Morgan shows how vision functions as an active, physical process, embedded in bodily experience and profoundly shaped by social practice. Morgan's bold, thoughtful interpretations will fascinate art historians and students of visual culture as well as historians of religion." -Pepe Karmel, Department of Art History, New York University
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"Exploring a dazzling variety of religious imagery, David Morgan shows how vision functions as an active, physical process, embedded in bodily experience and profoundly shaped by social practice. Morgan's bold, thoughtful interpretations will fascinate art historians and students of visual culture as well as historians of religion. -Pepe Karmel, Department of Art History, New York University"The Embodied Eye is an important and truly groundbreaking book. It represents a substantive and quite fascinating extension of David Morgan's previous work- especially as it impressively shows us how 'seeing' is the primary medium of social life, and materially integrates the body of the individual and the body of the group. Morgan is unquestionably the pioneering theorist in the whole emergent field of Visual and Culture Studies as it relates to religion and art." -Norman Girardot, University Distinguished Professor, Lehigh University"Under David Morgan's inspiring guidance, readers are taken on a dazzling journey through religious images that mediate worlds of faith. Embedding vision in the body, this book stands out with its thought-provoking approach to religious media as material and embodied interfaces that underpin the social construction of the sacred." -Birgit Meyer, Professor of Religious Studies, Utrecht UniversityRather than isolating vision from sensation and feeling, Morgan stresses the profoundly embodied nature of sight. Grounding the study of religious images and visual practices in the relationship between seeing and the senses, this book explores how vision colors what is seen with emotion and organizes social life in forms of shared feeling. The first part of the book theorizes seeing and the study of religious visual culture. The second part provides four case studies of how seeing is related to touching, hearing, feeling and such ephemeral experiences as dreams, imagination and visions.
