Seen and Unseen: Visual Culture, Sociology and Theology - Paperback

by K. Flanagan (Author)

This lively and highly original study explores the link between visual culture and religion in terms of tales, memory and character. It draws out the sociological implications of handling the virtual and virtue in ways of seeing. Using Simmel's approach to religiosity in his third study of sociology in theology, Flanagan explores how spectacle is to be understood in ways that yield trust. The study will be invaluable for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on visual culture, sociology of religion and theology.

Author Biography

KIERAN FLANAGAN is Reader in Sociology at the University of Bristol. His publications include: Sociology and Liturgy: Re-presentations of the Holy; and The Enchantment of Sociology: A Study of Theology and Culture. He has co-edited with Peter C. Jupp: Postmodernity, Sociology and Religion; and Virtue Ethics and Sociology: Issues of Modernity and Religion. He was Chairman of the British Sociological Association Sociology of Religion Study Group between 1997 and 2000.