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

• Autore: Morgan David <1957->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, c1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (432 p.)
• Disciplina: 246/.5
• Soggetto topico: Popular culture - United States - History - 19th century; Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century; Protestantism in art; Spirituality in art
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Protestants & pictures
• ISBN: 0-19-774057-X; 1-280-53057-X; 0-19-535148-7; 1-4294-0477-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784712803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II