Visual Piety

David Morgan is Associate Professor of Art History at Valparaiso University and the editor of Icons of American Protestantism: The Art of Warner Sallman (1996).

• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSPREFACEACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTIONCONSTRUCTIVISM AND THE HISTORY OF VISUAL CULTUREMaterial Things and the Social Construction of RealityThe Aesthetics of Everyday LifeImages and Their WorldsCHAPTER ONE  THE PRACTICE OF VISUAL PIETYHigh and LowThe Aesthetic of DisinterestednessToward an Aesthetic of Popular Religious ArtThe Psychology of RecognitionInteractivity in the Reception of Popular Religious ImagesCHAPTER TWO  EMPATHY AND SYMPATHY IN THE HISTORY OF VISUAL PIETYCatholic Visual Piety from the Late Middle Ages to the Modern PeriodJonathan Edwards and the Aesthetic of PietySympathy and Benevolence in Nineteenth-Century American Protestantism"Home-Sympathy" and Christian NurtureCHAPTER THREE THE MASCULINITY OF CHRISTThe Image of Male Friendship: Jonathan and DavidThe Christology of Friendship and Twentieth-Century Visual PietyCHAPTER FOUR  READING THE FACE OF JESUSThe Head of Christ in Catholic and Lutheran ResponseThe Discourse of Hidden ImagesAvant-Garde and PopularCHAPTER FIVE DOMESTIC DEVOTION AND RITUALThe Christian Home: A Domestic Description of the SacredDomestic Ritual and ImagesCHAPTER SIX MEMORY AND THE SACREDSpace and TimeMemory and the SacredModes of Remembrance: Narrative and Anecdotal MemoryCONCLUSIONRELIGIOUS IMAGES AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF EVERYDAY LIFEAPPENDIXLETTERS AND DEMOGRAPHICSNOTESSELECT BIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX