The Lure of Images

This is the history of the relationship between mass produced visual media and religion in the US - from early evangelical tracts to teenage witches and televangelists. Morgan explores the cultural marketplace of public representation, showing how American religionists have made special use of visual media to instruct the public and practic

David Morgan (Author)

Part 1: Print Media in Antebellum America 1. The Aura of Print 2. Religion, Imagery, and Cultural Conflict Part 2: New Visual Media and the Marketplace 3. Consumption and Religious Images 4. Parlors and Kitchens: Visual Practice and American Homes 5. Pictorial Entertainment and Instruction 6. Seeing in Public: America as Imagined Community Part 3: The Power and Menace of Images 7. Facing the Sacred: Image and Charisma 8. Back to Nature