Deviant Viewers and Gendered Looks: Erotic Interactions with Images and Visual Culture in Song Popular Religion

This article examines popular anecdotes about erotic responses to religious images during the Song dynasty (960-1279). It first compares three interrelated traditions in order to see different agents at work: discussions of living images in art criticism, stories about miraculous icons in religious...

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Main Author: Cheng, Hsiao-wen (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2021
In: Journal of Chinese religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 49, Issue: 1, Pages: 21-47
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B China / Cult image / Visual perception / Eroticism / Interaction / Folk religion / History 960-1279
RelBib Classification:KBM Asia
Further subjects:B popular religion
B 感神通靈
B 宋代
B 神像顯靈
B 性別
B Visual Culture
B Sexuality
B Song Dynasty
B 民間宗教
B Gender
B 視覺文化
B living images
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