Böcker av David Morgan

A study of devotional images that traces their historical links to important strains of American culture. It demonstrates how popular visual images - from Warner Sallman's 'Head of Christ' to velvet renditions of DaVinci's 'Last Supper' to illustrations on prayer cards - have assumed central roles in contemporary American lives and communities.

Explores the cultural marketplace of public representation, showing how American religionists have made use of visual media to instruct the public, to practice devotion and ritual, and to form converts. This book reveals the importance of visual media to the construction and practice of sectarian and national community in a nation of immigrants.

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Explores how viewers absorb and process religious imagery and how their experience contributes to the social, intellectual, and perceptual construction of reality. This book discusses religious functions of images and the tools that viewers use to interpret them.