Protestants and Pictures Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production

by Morgan, David

• ISBN13: 9780195130294
• ISBN10: 0195130294
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In this lavishly illustrated book, David Morgan surveys the visual culture that shaped American Protestantism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--a vast record of images in illustrated bibles, Christian almanacs, children's literature, popular religious books, charts, broadsides, Sunday school cards, illuminated devotional items, tracts, chromos, and engravings. His purpose is to explain the rise of these images, their appearance and subject matter, how they were understood by believers, the uses to which they were put, and what their relation was to technological innovations, commerce, and the cultural politics of Protestantism. His overarching argument is that the role of images in American Protestantism greatly expanded and developed during this period.

Author Biography

David Morgan is Associate Professor of Art and Chair of the Department of Art at Valparaiso University.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Media, Millennium, Nationhood

The Millennial Mission of the American Republic

Evangelical Images and the American Tract Society

The Visual Rhetoric of Northern Evangelicalism

Adventism and Images of the End

Millerism and the Schematic Imagination

The Commerce of Images and Adventist Piety

Visual Pedagogy

Pictures and Children

Talking Pictures

The Rise of the Devotional Image in American Protestantism

The Devotional Likeness of Christ

Religious Art and the Formation of Character

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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