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A communion of shadows: religion and photography in nineteenth-century America

By Lindsey , Rachel McBride

Book information

Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9781469636481, 9781469633725, 9781469633732, 1469633728, 1469636484
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
8 MB (8636205 bytes)
Pages
xviii, 293 Seiten : Illustrationen, Portraits\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

"When the revolutionary technology of photography erupted in American culture in 1839, it swiftly became, in the day's parlance, a 'mania.' In this ... illustrated book, Rachel McBride Lindsey places vernacular photography at the center of the study of nineteenth-century American religious culture and lived religion. As an empirical tool, photography captured many of the signal scenes of American life, from the Gold Rush to the bloody battlefields of the Civil War. But photographs did not simply display neutral records of people, places, and things...commonplace photographs became inscribed with spiritual meaning, disclosing, not merely signifying, a power that lay beyond"...

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