The Lure of Images: A History of Religion and Visual Media in America (Religion, Media and Culture)

by David Morgan (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $55.39

  Explores the cultural marketplace of public representation, showing how American religionists have made use of visual media to instruct the public, to practice devotion and ritual, and to form converts. This book reveals the importance of visual media to the construction and practice of sectarian and national community in a nation of immigrants.