The Lure of Images: A history of religion and visual media in America

by David Morgan and David Morgan

Book Overview

This is the history of the relationship between mass produced visual media and religion in the United States. It is a journey from the 1780s to the present - from early evangelical tracts to teenage witches and televangelists, and from illustrated books to contemporary cinema.

David Morgan explores the cultural marketplace of public representation, showing how American religionists have made special use of visual media to instruct...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415409152
• ISBN13: 9780415409155
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"