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01974aam a2200349 i 4500 001 C1521952F11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180104010254 008 170125s2017 ncua b s001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017003594 020 $a 1469636484 020 $a 9781469636481 020 $a 1469633728 020 $a 9781469633725 035 $a (OCoLC)971130511 040 $a NcU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c NOC $d DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d OCLCQ $d BDX $d UUM $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a BL2525 L553 2017 100 1 $a Lindsey, Rachel McBride $e author. 245 12 $a A communion of shadows : $b religion and photography in nineteenth-century America / $c Rachel McBride Lindsey. 264 1 $a Chapel Hill : $b The University of North Carolina Press, $c [2017] 300 $a xviii, 293 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a United States $x Religious life and customs $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Photography $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214020154.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190103015201.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C1521952F11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search