{"product_id":"seeing-and-believing-9780231209052","title":"Seeing and Believing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeeing and Believing\u003c\/i\u003e marshals religious resources to recast the significance of digital images in the struggle for social justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeeing and Believing\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eSex, Tech, and Faith: Ethics in a Digital Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe ethical questions that animate \u003ci\u003eSeeing and Believing\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eTransforming Fire: Imagining Christian Teaching\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeveloping an account of 'photographic insurrection,' \u003ci\u003eSeeing and Believing\u003c\/i\u003e calls and calls \u003ci\u003eout, \u003c\/i\u003eattuning 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 \u003ci\u003eBlack Life Matter: Blackness, Religion, and the Subject\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEllen 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 \u003ci\u003eImages at Work: The Material Culture of Enchantment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e1. Setting the Stage\u003cbr\u003e2. Life on the New Public Square\u003cbr\u003e3. (Re)making Us\u003cbr\u003e4. Reframing Photography\u003cbr\u003e5. Photographic Insurrection\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Ways of Seeing Prompts\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400375312727,"sku":"9780231209052","price":25.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231209052.jpg?v=1730470535","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/seeing-and-believing-9780231209052","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}