<<A>> communion of shadows religion and photography in nineteenth-century America
Dissertation, Princeton University, 2012
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The University of North Carolina Press
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Dissertation, Princeton University, 2012 "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"... |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Angaben zur zurgrundeliegenden Dissertation "A Communion of Shadows: Vernacular Photography and the Material Archives of Nineteenth-Century American Religion" ermittelt |
| Beschreibung: | xviii, 293 Seiten Illustrationen, Portraits |
| ISBN: | 9781469633725 9781469636481 |