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Title:

The visual culture of American religions / edited by David Morgan & Sally Promey.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xiv, 427 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Art and religion--United States.

Other Authors:

Morgan, David, 1957-
Promey, Sally M., 1953-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-382) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780520225206 (alk. paper)
0520225201 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)44132928

LCCN:

00034378

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

UTAX314 -- Emmaus Bible College Library (Dubuque)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)