1st Edition
The Sacred Heart of Jesus The Visual Evolution of a Devotion
By David Morgan
Copyright 2008
50 Pages
by
Routledge
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has been controversial from its beginning in the life of the French Visitationist nun Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647-1690), who established the devotion after a series of mystical visions of Christ. Under the leadership of Sister Sophie Barat, founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart in 1800, the devotion was taken around the world in the course of the... Read more
1. Beginnings in Seventeenth-Century France, 2. Critique and Defense in the Eighteenth Century, 3. Proliferation of the New Iconography in
Nineteenth-Century France and America, 4. Critique and Accommodation in the Twentieth Century, Notes
Biography
David Morgan is profesor of religion at Duke University.
