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Seeing Things Technologies of Vision and the Making of Mormonism.
"Blending methods of cultural history, religious studies, and media studies, Mason Allred unearths the ways Mormons employed technologies to translate events, beliefs, anxieties, and hopes into reproducible experiences and the growth of their religious system of meaning. By arraying and analyzi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2023.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Blending methods of cultural history, religious studies, and media studies, Mason Allred unearths the ways Mormons employed technologies to translate events, beliefs, anxieties, and hopes into reproducible experiences and the growth of their religious system of meaning. By arraying and analyzing technologies intimately commingled with Mormonism's historical development, the book offers a provocative reevaluation of Mormonism's doctrinal focus on materiality and embodiment. While Mormon uses of television and the internet are recent examples of the tradition's use of technology, Allred also attends to neglected and now forgotten technologies that Mormons used for negotiating the spirit, such as panorama displays and magic lantern shows. Allred offers a 'media archaeology' connecting such 'dead' technologies and practices with the present, arguing that Mormons' communion with God and fellow humans was regularly accomplished through these kinds of mediation"-- |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 146967260X 9781469672601 1469672596 9781469672595 |