Protestants and Pictures
Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production
Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, General Art, Art History, Religious, History, Americas, United States, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
| Author: | David Morgan | ISBN: | 9780190284770 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | Publication: | August 26, 1999 |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | David Morgan |
| ISBN: | 9780190284770 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Publication: | August 26, 1999 |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Language: | English |
In this lavishly illustrated book, David Morgan surveys the visual culture that shaped American Protestantism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--a vast record of images in illustrated bibles, Christian almanacs, children's literature, popular religious books, charts, broadsides, Sunday school cards, illuminated devotional items, tracts, chromos, and engravings. His purpose is to explain the rise of these images, their appearance and subject matter, how they were understood by believers, the uses to which they were put, and what their relation was to technological innovations, commerce, and the cultural politics of Protestantism. His overarching argument is that the role of images in American Protestantism greatly expanded and developed during this period.
In this lavishly illustrated book, David Morgan surveys the visual culture that shaped American Protestantism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--a vast record of images in illustrated bibles, Christian almanacs, children's literature, popular religious books, charts, broadsides, Sunday school cards, illuminated devotional items, tracts, chromos, and engravings. His purpose is to explain the rise of these images, their appearance and subject matter, how they were understood by believers, the uses to which they were put, and what their relation was to technological innovations, commerce, and the cultural politics of Protestantism. His overarching argument is that the role of images in American Protestantism greatly expanded and developed during this period.
