RT Book
T1 A communion of shadows: religion and photography in nineteenth-century America
A1 Lindsey, Rachel McBride
LA English
PP Chapel Hill
PB University of North Carolina Press
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1007568399
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
CN BL2525
SN 9781469633732
SN 1469633736
SN 1469633744
SN 9781469633749
K1 Photography : History : 19th century : United States
K1 Photography : United States : History : 19th century
K1 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT ; Inspiration & Personal Growth
K1 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT ; Spirituality ; General
K1 RELIGION ; Christianity ; General
K1 RELIGION ; Devotional
K1 RELIGION ; Spirituality
K1 Photography
K1 History
K1 United States : Religious life and customs : 19th century : United States
K1 United States : Religious life and customs : 19th century
K1 United States
K1 Electronic books : History