In this lavishly illustrated book; David Morgan surveys the visual culture that shaped American Protestantism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--a vast record of images in illustrated bibles; Christian almanacs; childrens literature; popular religious books; charts; broadsides; Sunday school cards; illuminated devotional items; tracts; chromos; and engravings. His purpose is to explain the rise of these images; their appearance and subject matter; how they were understood by believers; the uses to which they were put; and what their relation was to technological innovations; commerce; and the cultural politics of Protestantism. His overarching argument is that the role of images in American Protestantism greatly expanded and developed during this period.
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