Edited by Lisa Bitel
This special issue of Visual Resources tackles an enduring psychological and spiritual dilemma: How can we represent the invisible? How do we prove or disprove the validity what others see but we ourselves cannot? Articles in the volume focus on Christian contexts, tracing the ways that visual thinkers of Western society have approached the problem of visualizing the invisible across continents and over centuries. Together, these interdisciplinary studies of religious vision suggest useful new perspectives on the relation of art, aesthetics, science, and faith in our own historical moment of surging religiosity and globalizing visual culture.
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