The embodied eye : religious visual culture and the social life of feeling / David Morgan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Vision and embodiment -- The body in question -- Ways of seeing -- Icon and interface -- Matter of the heart: touching and seeing -- The look of sympathy: feeling and seeing -- The enchantment of media: hearing and seeing -- At the cusp of invisibility: visions, dreams, and images.

"David Morgan builds on his previous groundbreaking work to offer this new, systematically integrated theory of the study of religion as visual culture. Providing key tools for scholars across disciplines studying the materiality of religions, Morgan gives an accessibly written theoretical overview including case studies of the ways seeing is related to touching, hearing, feeling, and such ephemeral experiences as dreams, imagination, and visions. The case studies explore both the high and low of religious visual culture: Catholic traditions of the erotic Sacred Heart of Jesus, the unrecognizability of the Virgin in the Fatima apparitions, the prehistory of Warner Sallman's face of Jesus, and more."--Cover.