Religion in Plain View

Public Aesthetics of American Display

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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A revelatory critique of public display in the United States. 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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Utgivningsdatum:2024-11-18
Mått:178 x 254 x 58 mm
Vikt:1 901 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:560
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226832333

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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.

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"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."

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Note on Image SelectionNote on Hawaiian-Language UsageList of FiguresPrologue: America by DesignIntroduction: The Public Display of American ReligionChapter 1: Conversational AssembliesChapter 2: Commercial RelationsChapter 3: Testimonial AestheticsChapter 4: Heritage FabricationsChapter 5: Material EstablishmentConclusion: The Limits of DisplayAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex