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Book SynopsisSeeing and Believing marshals religious resources to recast the significance of digital images in the struggle for social justice.
Trade ReviewSeeing and Believing is a meticulous and engaging portrait of how digital technology, especially social media, affects society. Never abstracting or ignoring the gaze of whiteness in seeking racial justice, Armour shows the reader how photographic insurrection can upend oppressive relationships generated by biodisciplinary powers. -- Kate Ott, author of
Sex, Tech, and Faith: Ethics in a Digital AgeThe ethical questions that animate
Seeing and Believing are achingly current: How do we live with the aggressive seductions of digital worlds? Can religious teachings offer us any help? This fully engaged and persistently hopeful book moves through the stripping-away of critique to find resources for insurrection. -- Mark D. Jordan, author of
Transforming Fire: Imagining Christian TeachingDeveloping an account of 'photographic insurrection,'
Seeing and Believing calls and calls
out, attuning us to the ways that our new digital public square can be mobilized toward justice. Prophetic, critical, and meditative, this text will most certainly impact the way we see the world—and ourselves. Or at least it did for me. -- Biko Mandela Gray, author of
Black Life Matter: Blackness, Religion, and the SubjectEllen Armour's sensitivity to diverse articulations of power informs her treatment of images as both inducing conformity and spawning resistance. This is especially relevant for the consideration of social media since these platforms are shaped both by their providers and by their consumers. This book brings intensive theological reflection to the study of visual culture in a way that will engage scholars of many kinds. -- David Morgan, author of
Images at Work: The Material Culture of EnchantmentTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Preface
1. Setting the Stage
2. Life on the New Public Square
3. (Re)making Us
4. Reframing Photography
5. Photographic Insurrection
Epilogue
Appendix: Ways of Seeing Prompts
Notes
Bibliography
Index
