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

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lindsey, Rachel McBride (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469633732
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1469633744
9781469633749