Professor Stephen Pattison is currently Head of the School of Theology and RS at University of Cardiff. He is widely published, writing A Critique of Pastoral Care, for SCM, 1988, 1993, 2000. He has been invited to the prestigious position of Gifford Lecturer in 2007 at Aberdeen University.

A 'clear introduction to the study of visual and material culture that certainly deserves to be considered as a good and useful introductory textbook on these subjects.' 'What struck me in reading this volume is ... how well it works as an introductory text book, because I can't think of another book that covers the same ground in the same way.' '[Pattison} is ... concerned to move from conventional theological reductions of the visual mainly to an interest in art and iconography to the much wider field of visual and material culture.'Professor Daniel Miller FBA, Professor of Anthropology at University College London on www.materialworldblog .com

Professor Stephen Pattison is currently Head of the School of Theology and RS at University of Cardiff. He is widely published, writing A Critique of Pastoral Care, for SCM, 1988, 1993, 2000. He has been invited to the prestigious position of Gifford Lecturer in 2007 at Aberdeen University.

A 'clear introduction to the study of visual and material culture that certainly deserves to be considered as a good and useful introductory textbook on these subjects.' 'What struck me in reading this volume is ... how well it works as an introductory text book, because I can't think of another book that covers the same ground in the same way.' '[Pattison} is ... concerned to move from conventional theological reductions of the visual mainly to an interest in art and iconography to the much wider field of visual and material culture.'Professor Daniel Miller FBA, Professor of Anthropology at University College London on www.materialworldblog .com

Professor Stephen Pattison is currently Head of the School of Theology and RS at University of Cardiff. He is widely published, writing A Critique of Pastoral Care, for SCM, 1988, 1993, 2000. He has been invited to the prestigious position of Gifford Lecturer in 2007 at Aberdeen University.

A 'clear introduction to the study of visual and material culture that certainly deserves to be considered as a good and useful introductory textbook on these subjects.' 'What struck me in reading this volume is ... how well it works as an introductory text book, because I can't think of another book that covers the same ground in the same way.' '[Pattison} is ... concerned to move from conventional theological reductions of the visual mainly to an interest in art and iconography to the much wider field of visual and material culture.'Professor Daniel Miller FBA, Professor of Anthropology at University College London on www.materialworldblog .com