Media, Religion and Culture
A history of religion and visual media in America
Media, Religion and Culture
A history of religion and visual media in America
Presenting the history of the relationship between mass produced visual media and religion in the United States, this work takes the reader on a journey from early evangelical tracts to teenage witches and televangelists, and from illustrated books to contemporary cinema.
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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.
