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The visual culture of American religions /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Morgan, David, 1957-, Promey, Sally M., 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The public display of religion / Sally M. Promey
  • For Christ and the republic: Protestant illustration and the history of literacy in nineteenth-century America / David Morgan
  • America's church: Roman Catholicism and civic space in the nation's capital / Thomas A. Tweed
  • Architecture as community service: West Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, Delaware / Gretchen T. Buggeln
  • Catholic envy: the visual culture of Protestant desire / John Davis
  • Robert Gober's "virgin" installation: issues of spirituality in contemporary American art / Erika Doss
  • Visual religion in media culture / Stewart M. Hoover
  • From presentation to representation in Sioux sun dance painting / Harvey Markowitz
  • William Sidney Mount and the Hermetic tradition in American art / David Bjelajac
  • Transforming images: New Mexican Santos between theory and history / Claire Farago
  • Visualizing God's silence: oracles, the Enlightenment, and Elihu Vedder's Questioner of the Sphinx / Leigh E. Schmidt
  • Greetings from faith: early-twentieth-century American Jewish New Year postcards / Ellen Smith
  • "When Jesus handed me a ticket": images of railroad travel and spiritual transformations among African Americans, 1865-1917 / John M. Giggie
  • American Protestant Bible illustration from copper plates to computers / Paul Gutjahr.