Pt. 1. Questions and definitions. Defining visual culture
Visual practice and the function of images
The covenant with images
Pt. 2. Images between cultures. The violence of seeing : idolatry and iconoclasm
The circulation of images in mission history
Pt. 3. The social life of pictures. Engendering vision : absent fathers and women with beards
National icons : Bibles, flags, and Jesus in American civil religion.
The sacred gaze : religious visual culture in theory and practice by David Morgan. ISBN 0520243064. Published by University of California Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.