{"product_id":"visual-piety-a-history-and-theory-of-popular-religious-images-9780520209787","title":"Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis fascinating study of devotional images traces their historical links to important strains of American culture. David Morgan demonstrates how popular visual imagesfrom Warner Sallmans \"Head of Christ\" to velvet renditions of DaVincis \"Last Supper\" to illustrations on prayer cardshave assumed central roles in contemporary American lives and communities.  Morgans history of popular religious images ranges from the late Middle Ages to the present day and analyzes what he calls \"visual piety \" or the belief that images convey. Rather than isolating popular icons from their social contexts or regarding them as merely illustrative of theological ideas  Morgan situates both Protestant and Catholic art within the domain of devotional practice  ritual  personal narrative  and the sacred space of the home. In addition  he examines how popular icons have been rooted in social concerns ranging from control of human passions to notions of gender  creedal orthodoxy  and friendship. Also discussed is the coupling of images with texts in the attempt to control meanings and to establish markers for ones community and belief. Drawing from the fields of music  sociology  theology  philosophy  psychology  and aesthetics Visual Piety is the first book to bring to specialist and lay reader alike an understanding of religious imagerys place in the social formation and maintenance of everyday American life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651867435061,"sku":"ByrdShop_0520209788","price":225.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780520209787.jpg?v=1781842986","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/visual-piety-a-history-and-theory-of-popular-religious-images-9780520209787","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}