"At last, a book that overturns the long-standing assumption that there has been little or no visual culture in American religious practice. Editors Morgan and

"Sacred gaze" denotes any way of seeing that invests its object—an image, a person, a time, a place—with spiritual significance. Drawing from many different

"Exploring a dazzling variety of religious imagery, David Morgan shows how vision functions as an active, physical process, embedded in bodily experience and pr