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

by David Morgan and David Morgan

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195130294
• ISBN13: 9780195130294
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 2.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.4" x 10.3"