Seeing and Believing

Seeing and Believing is a meticulous and engaging portrait of how digital technology, especially social media, affects society. Never abstracting or ignoring the gaze of whiteness in seeking racial justice, Armour shows the reader how photographic insurrection can upend oppressive relationships generated by biodisciplinary powers. -- Kate Ott, author of <i>Sex, Tech, and Faith: Ethics in a Digital Age</i> The ethical questions that animate Seeing and Believing are achingly current: How do we live with the aggressive seductions of digital worlds? Can religious teachings offer us any help? This fully engaged and persistently hopeful book moves through the stripping-away of critique to find resources for insurrection. -- Mark D. Jordan, author of <i>Transforming Fire: Imagining Christian Teaching</i> Developing an account of 'photographic insurrection,' Seeing and Believing calls and calls out, attuning us to the ways that our new digital public square can be mobilized toward justice. Prophetic, critical, and meditative, this text will most certainly impact the way we see the world-and ourselves. Or at least it did for me. -- Biko Mandela Gray, author of <i>Black Life Matter: Blackness, Religion, and the Subject</i> Ellen Armour's sensitivity to diverse articulations of power informs her treatment of images as both inducing conformity and spawning resistance. This is especially relevant for the consideration of social media since these platforms are shaped both by their providers and by their consumers. This book brings intensive theological reflection to the study of visual culture in a way that will engage scholars of many kinds. -- David Morgan, author of <i>Images at Work: The Material Culture of Enchantment</i>