1st Edition
The Lure of Images A history of religion and visual media in America
By David Morgan
Copyright 2007
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is the history of the relationship between mass produced visual media and religion in the United States. It is a journey from the 1780s to the present - from early evangelical tracts to teenage witches and televangelists, and from illustrated books to contemporary cinema. David Morgan explores the cultural marketplace of public representation, showing how American religionists have made... Read more
Part 1: Print Media in Antebellum America 1. The Aura of Print 2. Religion, Imagery, and Cultural Conflict Part 2: New Visual Media and the Marketplace 3. Consumption and Religious Images 4. Parlors and Kitchens: Visual Practice and American Homes 5. Pictorial Entertainment and Instruction 6. Seeing in Public: America as Imagined Community Part 3: The Power and Menace of Images 7. Facing the Sacred: Image and Charisma 8. Back to Nature
Biography
David Morgan (Author)
