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Book Review: Seen and Unseen: Visual Culture, Sociology and Theology

In Seen and Unseen: Visual Culture, Sociology and Theology, Kieran Flanagan plunges into the turbulent confluence of the rivers of sociology and theology, a spot where angels and sociologists often fear to tread. He has dived previously into these eddies in Sociology and Liturgy: Re-presentations of The Holy (Macmillan, 1991) and The Enchantment of Sociology: A Study of Theology and Culture (Macmillan, 1996). But Seen and Unseen goes deeper still into the intellectual and ideological swirls where nature and supernature, corporeality and spirituality, enchantment and disenchantment, the real and the virtual, mix and mingle. Flanagan shows that if we are to see through the new world order of virtuality, sociology and theology sink or swim together. He comments: