Visual Piety in Paul

2014 ◽  
Vol 125 (12) ◽  
pp. 599-601
Author(s):  
Alexandra R. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Visual Piety

Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images

1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 555
Author(s):  
Richard J. Callahan ◽  
David Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Images ◽  
Visual Piety ◽  
History And Theory

Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images.

1999 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 1666
Author(s):  
Patricia Johnston ◽  
David Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Images ◽  
Visual Piety ◽  
History And Theory

Flickering images, floating signifiers: optical innovation and visual piety in senegal

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen F. Roberts ◽  
Mary Nooter Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Visual Piety ◽  
Floating Signifiers

scholarly journals Visualizing Belief and Piety in Iranian Shi‘ism

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 137-140
Author(s):  
Edith Szanto
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Thick Description ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Ritual Spaces ◽  
Visual Piety ◽  
Semiotic Theory

In her book, Ingvild Flaskerud once and for all dispels the idea that Islamlacks and opposes all forms of visual art. Hers is a pioneering work, whichguides her readers through Twelver Shi‘i visual culture in Iran. She framesher discussion by drawing on semiotic theory, particularly Charles SandersPeirce and Roland Barthes, in order to show both the interpretive possibilitiesinherent in visual piety and the ways in which meaning is fixed.Flaskerud is uniquely positioned for writing about visual piety, as she hasalready produced an artistic visual film (“Standard Bearers of Hussein:Women Commemorating Karbala,” 2003) on Shi‘i women’s practices inIran. Visualizing Belief and Piety in Iranian Shi‘ism is a Geertzian “thick description”(Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures) composed of three parts,each of which is followed by black-and-white pictures analyzed in thatpart. The first two parts address two iconographic themes respectively. Thethird discusses the usage of pious art in votive practices and ritual spaces ...

Paul's Visual Piety

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. F. Heath
Keyword(s):  
Visual Piety
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