This is an original study of the sociological imagination in regard to visual culture. It explores the reflexive dimensions of choice over seeing or not seeing in relation to paintings, images and islands. Bourdieu, Goffman and Simmel provide the basis for insights into how reflexivity in sociology has unexplored theological implications.

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University of Bristol, UK

Kieran Flanagan

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KIERAN FLANAGAN is Reader in Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK. His publications include: Sociology and Liturgy: Re-presentations of the Holy, The Enchantment of Sociology: A Study of Theology and Culture and Seen and Unseen: Visual Culture, Sociology and Theology. His most recent coedited work (with Peter C. Jupp) is A Sociology of Spirituality.

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Book Title: Sociology in Theology
Book Subtitle: Reflexivity and Belief
Authors: Kieran Flanagan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287457
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-00265-4Published: 05 September 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28745-7Published: 05 September 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 189
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Social Aspects of Religion, Anthropology, Arts, Fine Arts, Intellectual Studies

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Religion and Reflexivity: The Paralysis of a Theological Imagination

To the Western Isles: The Visions of Goffman and Synge

Molly Sweeney and the Blind Sociologist: Dilemmas of Discernment

Ocular Gifts: Seeing the Invisible in the Visible

Conclusion

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