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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809680103321

Autore

Morgan David <1957->

Titolo

Protestants & pictures : religion, visual culture and the age of American mass production / / David Morgan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-028477-3

0-19-774057-X

1-280-53057-X

0-19-535148-7

1-4294-0477-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (432 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

246/.5

246.5

Soggetti

Protestantism in art

Spirituality in art

Popular culture - United States - History - 19th century

Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; One: Media, Millennium, Nationhood; Two: Evangelical Images and the American Tract Society; Three: The Visual Rhetoric of Northern Evangelicalism; Four: Millerism and the Schematic Imagination; Five: The Commerce of Images and Adventist Piety; Six: Pictures and Children; Seven: Talking Pictures; PAR IV: THE RISE OF THE DEVOTIONAL IMAGE IN AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM; Eight: The Devotional Likeness of Christ; Nine: Religious Art and the Formation of Character; Conclusion: The Return of Aura; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K

LM; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

The author surveys the enormous visual culture that shaped American Protestantism in the late-19th and 20th centuries. His overarching argument is that the role of images in American Protestantism greatly expanded and developed during this period.