Protestants & pictures
Subtitle: religion, visual culture and the age of American mass production
By: David Morgan.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
Subjects: Protestantism in art; Spirituality in art; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Other titles: Protestants and pictures
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-406) and index.