Lisa M. Bitel is Professor of History and Religion at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Land of Women and Isle of the Saints, both from Cornell, as well as Landscape with Two Saints and Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400–1100. Matt Gainer is a documentary photographer whose work explores social and political movements, religious identity and community, and tensions between people and the environments they occupy. His work has been exhibited in North America and Europe at the Brukenthal National Museum, the Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Roma, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juarez.

• Preface: Looking the Wrong Way1. Déjà Vu2. The Desert Is WideVisual Essay: Our Lady of the Rock, 2006–20113. The Model Visionary4. Looking Like Pilgrims5. From Witness to Visionary6. Discernment at a Distance: The Global Culture of WitnessingConclusion: The Longue Durée of Christian Religious VisionNotesIndex

"'Besides intercessors,' writes Lisa Bitel, 'genuine Christian epiphany also involves... humans.' Her collaboration with photographer Matt Gainer invites readers within a stunningly fine-grained exploration of the everyday making of religion, as two thousand years of Christian revelatory tradition are brought to bear on purportedly modern ways of seeing and explaining, doubting and believing."

Lisa M. Bitel is Professor of History and Religion at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Land of Women and Isle of the Saints, both from Cornell, as well as Landscape with Two Saints and Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400–1100. Matt Gainer is a documentary photographer whose work explores social and political movements, religious identity and community, and tensions between people and the environments they occupy. His work has been exhibited in North America and Europe at the Brukenthal National Museum, the Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Roma, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juarez.

• Preface: Looking the Wrong Way1. Déjà Vu2. The Desert Is WideVisual Essay: Our Lady of the Rock, 2006–20113. The Model Visionary4. Looking Like Pilgrims5. From Witness to Visionary6. Discernment at a Distance: The Global Culture of WitnessingConclusion: The Longue Durée of Christian Religious VisionNotesIndex

"'Besides intercessors,' writes Lisa Bitel, 'genuine Christian epiphany also involves... humans.' Her collaboration with photographer Matt Gainer invites readers within a stunningly fine-grained exploration of the everyday making of religion, as two thousand years of Christian revelatory tradition are brought to bear on purportedly modern ways of seeing and explaining, doubting and believing."

Lisa M. Bitel is Professor of History and Religion at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Land of Women and Isle of the Saints, both from Cornell, as well as Landscape with Two Saints and Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400–1100. Matt Gainer is a documentary photographer whose work explores social and political movements, religious identity and community, and tensions between people and the environments they occupy. His work has been exhibited in North America and Europe at the Brukenthal National Museum, the Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Roma, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juarez.

• Preface: Looking the Wrong Way1. Déjà Vu2. The Desert Is WideVisual Essay: Our Lady of the Rock, 2006–20113. The Model Visionary4. Looking Like Pilgrims5. From Witness to Visionary6. Discernment at a Distance: The Global Culture of WitnessingConclusion: The Longue Durée of Christian Religious VisionNotesIndex

"'Besides intercessors,' writes Lisa Bitel, 'genuine Christian epiphany also involves... humans.' Her collaboration with photographer Matt Gainer invites readers within a stunningly fine-grained exploration of the everyday making of religion, as two thousand years of Christian revelatory tradition are brought to bear on purportedly modern ways of seeing and explaining, doubting and believing."