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Publications [#348765] of David Morgan

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  1. Morgan, D. "A Generative Entanglement: Word and Image in Roman Catholic Devotional Practice." Entangled Religions 11:3 (February, 2020): 1-21. [doi]

    Abstract:
    Devotional piety broadly depends on events that are not accessible for direct observation and commonly offer little, if anything, in the way of historical documentation. Sometimes the experiences to which devotion is directed in the veneration of saints is based on visionary experience for which reports are contradictory. This essays explores ways in which word and image are brought together to anchor evanescent or ephemeral, or entirely uncertain, origins and provide devotion with stable objects. I develop the view that word and image are generatively entangled, meaning that their ambiguous connections with one another are able to produce a medium in which devotion finds a footing.


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