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Encyclopedia of Religion, Second Edition, Volume 11: Pius IX - Rivers

Sacred images engage viewers in acts of seeing that are themselves forms of religious experience. When human beings “see,” they do so by means of an extensive apparatus of vision that may be designated by the term gaze. The gaze is not simply an optical event, the physiological act of looking at something, but the constellation of numerous events and aspects of vision: the engagement of the body of the viewer, the regimentation of time, the application of an epistemology of seeing that makes things intelligible, the eclipse of spaces and orders outside the boundaries of the gaze, and the focus of memory and consciousness on certain matters. The act of vision orchestrates all of these as a culture of thought, feeling, and sensation shared by members of a group. Glimpsing, glancing, glaring, gleaming,
gorging, and other discrete visual operations, such as blinking—all are to apprehend images in various ways and construct very different relationships between viewer and image and whatever is evoked or represented by the image. Even the destruction or privation of imagery creates an experience that can be profoundly meaningful.

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No. Panggil

Online

Penerbit

Michigan, USA : Macmillan Reference USA., 2005

Deskripsi Fisik

684 p. : 29 cm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-02-865980-5

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NONE

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

electronic

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

Second Edition

Subjek

Religion
Encyclopedias
Religion Encyclopedias

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Jones, Lindsay

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