Protestants and Pictures : Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production

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, children's 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. Protestants And Pictures Examines The Important Role That American Protestants Played In The Formation Of Visual Mass Culture Between 1820 And 1920 - A Vast Record Of Images That Includes Illustrated Bibles, Popular Religious Books, Children's Literature, Broadsides, Tracts, Chromos, And Engravings. In Exploring The Rise Of This Culture, Author David Morgan Shows How Protestants Used Mass-produced Images To Dedicate Religious Revival, Proselytism, Mass Education, And Domestic Nurture To The Aim Of National Renewal.--jacket. 1. A Media, Millennium, Nationhood -- Pt. I. The Millennial Mission Of The American Republic. 2. Evangelical Images And The American Tract Society. 3. The Visual Rhetoric Of Northern Evangelicalism. Pt. Ii. Adventism And Images Of The End. 4. Millerism And The Schematic Imagination. 5. The Commerce Of Images And Adventist Piety -- Pt. Iii. Visual Pedagogy. 6. Pictures And Children. 7. Talking Pictures. Pt. Iv. The Rise Of The Devotional Image In American Protestantism. 8. The Devotional Likeness Of Christ. 9. Religious Art And The Formation Of Character -- Conclusion: The Return Of Aura. David Morgan. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [393]-406) And Index. Contents......Page 8 List of Illustrations......Page 10 Introduction......Page 18 One: Media, Millennium, Nationhood......Page 28 PART I: THE MILLENNIAL MISSION OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC......Page 56 Two: Evangelical Images and the American Tract Society......Page 58 Three: The Visual Rhetoric of Northern Evangelicalism......Page 90 PART II: ADVENTISM AND IMAGES OF THE END......Page 136 Four: Millerism and the Schematic Imagination......Page 138 Five: The Commerce of Images and Adventist Piety......Page 174 PART III: VISUAL PEDAGOGY......Page 214 Six: Pictures and Children......Page 216 Seven: Talking Pictures......Page 250 PAR IV: THE RISE OF THE DEVOTIONAL IMAGE IN AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM......Page 278 Eight: The Devotional Likeness of Christ......Page 280 Nine: Religious Art and the Formation of Character......Page 320 Conclusion: The Return of Aura......Page 354 Notes......Page 364 Bibliography......Page 408 A......Page 422 B......Page 423 C......Page 424 F......Page 425 J......Page 426 M......Page 427 P......Page 428 R......Page 429 S......Page 430 W......Page 431 Y......Page 432 "Protestants and Pictures examines the important role that American Protestants played in the formation of visual mass culture between 1820 and 1920 - a vast record of images that includes illustrated Bibles, popular religious books, children's literature, broadsides, tracts, chromos, and engravings. In exploring the rise of this culture, author David Morgan shows how Protestants used mass-produced images to dedicate religious revival, proselytism, mass education, and domestic nurture to the aim of national renewal."--BOOK JACKET. The author surveys the enormous visual culture that shaped American Protestantism in the late-19th and 20th centuries. His overarching argument is that the role of images in American Protestantism greatly expanded and developed during this period.