Religion, Art, and Visual Culture

Introduction; S.Brent Plate SECTION 1: THE EYE AND THE MIND Introduction to Section One; S.Brent Plate From 'Vision'; D.Ackerman , From Eye and Mind ; R.L.Gregory From 'To See and Not See'; O.Sacks From 'Metaphors on Vision'; S.Brakhage SECTION 2: ICON: THE IMAGE OF JESUS CHRIST AND CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY Introduction to Section Two; S.Brent Plate From 'Image'; M.Miles From Painting the Word ; J.Drury From The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion ; L.Steinberg From 'Would Jesus Have Sat for a Portrait? The Likeness of Christ in the Popular Reception of Sallman's Art'; D.Morgan SECTION 3: QALAM: THE RELATIONSHIP OF WORD AND IMAGE IN ISLAMIC CALLIGRAPHY Introduction to Section Three; S.Brent Plate From Mediation of Ornament; O.Grabar From 'The Spiritual Message of Islamic Calligraphy'; S.H.Nasr From Calligraphy and Islamic Culture ; A.Schimmel From Modern Islamic Art ; W.Ali SECTION 4: SHINJIN: THE SEEING MIND-BODY IN JAPANESE ZEN GARDENS Introduction to Section Four; S.Brent Plate From Buddhism and the Arts of Japan ; R.Pilgrim From The Body: Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory ; Y.Yasuo From The Ocean in the Sand ; M .Holborn 'The Japanese Zen Garden'; S.Nagatomo & P.Winfield SECTION 5: DARSHAN: SEEING THE DIVINE IMAGE IN INDIA IN THE MODERN AGE Introduction to Section Five; S.Brent Plate From Darshan ; D.Eck From the Prologue to Devi: Goddess of India ; J.S.Hawley From 'All in the (Raghu) Family'; P.Lutgendorf From Lives of Indian Images ; R.Davis SECTION 6: ZAKHOR: JEWISH MEMORY BUILT INTO ARCHITECTURE Introduction to Section Six; S.Brent Plate From Jewish Icons ; R.Cohen From The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning ; J.Young 'Idolizing/Idealizing the Holocaust Era Boxcar'; O.Stier 'Building Zakhor: Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum, Berlin'; S.Brent Plate