Religion in Plain View: Public Aesthetics of American Display
Autor Sally M. Promeyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 noi 2024
In Religion in Plain View, Sally M. Promey analyzes religion’s visible saturation of American public space and the histories that shaped this exhibitionary aesthetics. In street art, vehicle décor, signs, monuments, architecture, zoning policy, and more, Promey exposes American display’s merger of evangelicalism, capitalism, and imperialism. From this convergence, display materializes a distinctly American drive to advertise, claim territory, invalidate competitors, and fabricate a tractable national heritage. Charting this aesthetics’ strategic work as a Protestant technology of White nation formation, Religion in Plain View offers a dynamic critique of the ways public display perpetuates deeply ingrained assumptions about the proper shape of life and land in the United States.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226832333
ISBN-10: 0226832333
Pagini: 560
Ilustrații: 133 color plates
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 58 mm
Greutate: 1.96 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 0226832333
Pagini: 560
Ilustrații: 133 color plates
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 58 mm
Greutate: 1.96 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Notă biografică
Sally M. Promey is professor of American studies and religious studies as well as the Caroline Washburn Professor of Religion and Visual Culture at Yale University, where she directs the Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion. She is the author or editor of several books, most recently Sensational Religion: Sensory Cultures in Material Practice.
Cuprins
Note on Image Selection
Note on Hawaiian-Language Usage
List of Figures
Prologue: America by Design
Introduction: The Public Display of American Religion
Chapter 1: Conversational Assemblies
Chapter 2: Commercial Relations
Chapter 3: Testimonial Aesthetics
Chapter 4: Heritage Fabrications
Chapter 5: Material Establishment
Conclusion: The Limits of Display
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Note on Hawaiian-Language Usage
List of Figures
Prologue: America by Design
Introduction: The Public Display of American Religion
Chapter 1: Conversational Assemblies
Chapter 2: Commercial Relations
Chapter 3: Testimonial Aesthetics
Chapter 4: Heritage Fabrications
Chapter 5: Material Establishment
Conclusion: The Limits of Display
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Recenzii
"An ambitious exploration of the public nature of religion in America. Locating an overlap between Christianity and capitalism . . . Promey’s study of the ways in which power is mediated via material culture fascinates."
“Religion in Plain View is nothing short of astonishing in its geographical breadth and critical depth. Promey, one of our most distinguished historians of American visual and religious cultures, brings a rare combination of scholarly erudition and everyday observation to this timely analysis of the ways that religious belief, often coupled with commercial and political interests, manifests across the United States.”
“Brimming with theoretical insights, this book reveals the stakes of contests over religious and political display. Promey locates sensory culture at the center of White Protestantism’s ‘material establishment’ and, through a groundbreaking analysis of American religion, provides readers with the tools to analyze the messages of religious ‘show and tell.’”
“In this tour de force, Promey shows how public displays of religion have, by design, shaped us to experience and accept particular constructions of ‘America, the beautiful.’ In massive gatherings and tiny bumper stickers, Promey unveils the testimonial aesthetics, material establishment, and heritage fabrication of American public display. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the politics of monuments and space.”
“An engaging and important book, Religion in Plain View begins with a deceptively simple question: What do Americans see every day as they move through their towns and cities? With a deft hand, Promey takes readers with her on a memorable and striking visual journey across the United States.”