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Religious Visual Culture, Critical Theory, Religion and Media

David Morgan is Professor of Religion with a secondary appointment in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1990. He has published several books and dozens of essays on the history of religious visual culture, on art history and critical theory, and on religion and media. His most recent book is The Lure of Images: A History of Religion and Visual Media in America (Routledge, 2007). He edited and contributed to Key Words in Religion, Media, and Culture (Routledge, 2008). Earlier works include Visual Piety (University of California Press, 1998), Protestants and Pictures (Oxford, 1999), and The Sacred Gaze ( California, 2005). Morgan is co-founder and co-editor of the international scholarly journal, Material Religion, and co-editor of a book series at Routledge entitled “Religion, Media, and Culture.”

Education:

• PhD University of Chicago 1990

Teaching (Fall 2009):

• Religion 49s.02, First-year seminar (top)

  Perkins 2-065, MW 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

1. D.A. Morgan, editor. Religion and Material Culture: The Matter of Belief. 2010.
2. D.Morgan, "Introduction" and "Materiality, Social Analysis, and the Study of Religions", in Religion and Material Culture: The Matter of Belief., edited by David Morgan (2009), pp. 1-20, 70-95, Routledge .
3. D. Morgan, Aura and the Inversion of Marian Pilgrimage: Fatima and Her Statues, in Moved By Mary: Pilgrimage in the Modern World, edited by Hermkens, Jansen, Notermans (2009), pp. pp. 49-65 .
4. D. Morgan, American Holy Land: Tissot in the National Context, in Prodigal Son: James Tissot and the "Life of Christ", edited by Judith Dolkart (2009), pp. pp. 48-65, Brooklyn Museum .
5. D. Morgan, "Painting as Visual Evidence", in Using Visual Evidence, edited by Richard Howells and Robert Matson (2009), pp. pp. 8-23, Open University Press .

Selected Invited Lectures

1. "The Look of the Sacred", May 16, 2008    
2. "Religion, Media, Culture: The Shape of the Field", April 11, 2008    
3. “Looking Beyond the Modern Bubble: Medieval Art and the Study of Modern Visual Culture”, March 15, 2008    
4. "Marian Visual Piety and the Economy of Belief", March 02, 2007