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Author Lindsey, Rachel McBride, author.

Title A communion of shadows : religion and photography in nineteenth-century America / Rachel McBride Lindsey.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "When the revolutionary technology of photography erupted in American culture in 1839, it swiftly became, in the day's parlance, a 'mania.' In this ... illustrated book, Rachel McBride Lindsey places vernacular photography at the center of the study of nineteenth-century American religious culture and lived religion. As an empirical tool, photography captured many of the signal scenes of American life, from the Gold Rush to the bloody battlefields of the Civil War. But photographs did not simply display neutral records of people, places, and things--commonplace photographs became inscribed with spiritual meaning, disclosing, not merely signifying, a power that lay beyond"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Images; Introduction: A New Testament; 1: When I Awake with Thy Likeness; 2: Here Is My Name When I Am Dead; 3: Agents of a Fuller Revelation; 4: By Pencil and Camera; 5: Beyond the Sense Horizon; Epilogue: How Mr. Eastman Changed the Face of American Religion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject United States -- Religious life and customs -- 19th century.
United States.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Photography.
History.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Lindsey, Rachel McBride. Communion of shadows. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017] 9781469633725 (DLC) 2017003594 (OCoLC)971130511
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