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The Visual Culture of American Religions

By David Morgan , Sally M. Promey

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
0520225201, 9780520225206, 9780585391793
LCC
N72.R4 V57 2001
Open Library ID
OL6783598M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (8982386 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
427\442
Topic
Religion
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Contemporary artists have often clashed with conservative American evangelicals in recent years, giving the impression that art and religion are fundamentally at odds. Yet historically, artistic images have played a profound role in American religious life. This superb collection of essays, with its unique collection of images, challenges the growing tension between religion and the arts by illustrating and investigating their long-standing and intriguing relationship from the early nineteenth century to the present day. The essays explore such varied topics as Sioux Sun Dance artifacts and paintings, American Jewish New Year postcards, the New Mexican santo tradition, roadside shrines, images of journey in African American pictorial traditions, the public display of religion, and the religious use of nineteenth-century technologies of mass reproduction.

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