Visual Culture of American Religions

Name: Visual Culture of American Religions
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ISBN: 9780520225220

ISBN-10: 0520225228

ISBN-13: 9780520225220

Edition: 2001

Authors: David Morgan, Sally M. Promey

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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 assembly of images, challenges the apparent 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 santos tradition, roadside shrines,…

Book details

List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/16/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 441
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction



Religious Visual Culture and Public Identity



The Public Display of Religion




For Christ and the Republic: Protestant Illustration and the History of Literacy in Nineteenth-Century America




America's Church: Roman Catholicism and Civic Space in the Nation's Capital




Architecture as Community Service: West Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, Delaware




Religious Visual Culture and the Construction of Meaning



Catholic Envy: The Visual Culture of Protestant Desire




Robert Gober's "Virgin" Installation: Issues of Spirituality in Contemporary American Art




Visual Religion in Media Culture




From Presentation to Representation in Sioux Sun Dance Painting




William Sidney Mount and the Hermetic Tradition in American Art




Transforming Images: New Mexican Santos between Theory and History




Religious Visual Culture and American Modernity



Visualizing God's Silence: Oracles, the Enlightenment, and Elihu Vedder's Questioner of the Sphinx




Greetings from Faith: Early-Twentieth-Century American Jewish New Year Postcards




"When Jesus Handed Me a Ticket": Images of Railroad Travel and Spiritual Transformations among African Americans, 1865-1917




American Protestant Bible Illustration from Copper Plates to Computers



Notes


Selected Bibliography


Profiles of Archives and Collections


List of Contributors


Index