Foucault, pastoral power, and optics

The article shows that in Foucault's late 1970s and early 1980s analyses of pastoral, conductive power-most essentially in early and medieval Christianity-the issue of sight and visual perception recurs and occupies a crucial status. In Foucault's discussion, these Christian relations of p...

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Main Author: Siisiäinen, Lauri (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2015]
In: Critical research on religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 3, Issue: 3, Pages: 233-249
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Foucault, Michel 1926-1984 / Pastoral power / Visibility / Transparency / Governability / Liberalism / Economy
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
CG Christianity and Politics
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Michel Foucault
B Optics
B Christianity
B Governmentality
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)