Abstract
Christian people are less privileged class and considered a poor community in
Pakistani society but their dwellings are rich with the population of popular
Christian devotional art. This research paper investigates mass-produced modern
Christian devotional imagery which is invested with vital meanings in the lives of
Christian people in their domestic settings. The images of Jesus Christ and Virgin
Merry are one of the most common devotional images today. Aesthetically the
devotional images are not worth spending time on. But the devout viewers behold
in it, and that they look at it such that it builds up their faith, strengthening their
relationship to Jesus Christ. Through an ethnographic survey, this study is first of
its kind which identifies visual practices and assumptions about viewing and
showing how they contribute to forming and transforming relationships to the icon
of Jesus Christ and to sustaining such relationships once formed. In this study it is
argued that the popular devotional images contribute to the construction of
identity and reality and they help people to make and maintain their secure
domestic spaces.
Muhammad Asghar, Muhammad Arshad Rehmani, Abdul Qadir Mushtaq. (2017) JESUS IS WATCHING: THE RECEPTION OF CHRISTIAN DEVOTIONAL ART IN DOMESTIC SETTINGS, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 54, Issue 2.
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