David Morgan, Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University

David Morgan is Professor of Religious Studies with a secondary appointment in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Forge of Vision(2015), The Embodied Eye (2012), and The Sacred Gaze (2005).

"The most valuable aspect of Morgan's treatment is the sustained attention he gives to the fact that images do things to people.... It is still common to hear people treat religions as deracinated sets of propositions.... [Morgan] will help move the field to recognize that religion is always something that people do with their bodies, together, in history." - Kevin Schilbrack, The Journal of Religion

"The thesis presented in Images at Work, and the material selected and explicated to support it, is elegant in its simplicity. Morgan has clearly done the difficult, invisible, and underappreciated work of stripping his prose of nearly all lingo and academic shorthand. Morgan has taken the time and care to refine his argument into plain language. Because of this, the prose feels easy and unencumbered, allowing the meat and potatoes of the thesis to speak for itself. Because Morgan has not definitively located his text within the confines of any single discipline, or embellished it with jargon specific to one field of study, the thesis he presents feels open and invitingan offer to scholars across disciplines to use his text as a point of departure from which to reexamine and enrich their own areas of interest, whether those areas are religion, psychology, sociology, art history, anthropology, mythology, or semiotics." - Aaron Duggan, Nova Religio

"This book will be of interest to academic libraries and scholars in visual studies, art, and art history . . . At its core, this book is really about the power of images. Morgan succeeds at demonstrating how enchantment exists as a fundamental and pervasive part of visual culture and the human experience." - Jillian Ewalt, ARLIS/NA Reviews