Religion in Plain View (eBook)

Public Aesthetics of American Display

Sally M. Promey (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-83234-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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 decor, 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.11.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
• ISBN-10: 0-226-83234-1 / 0226832341
• ISBN-13: 978-0-226-83234-0 / 9780226832340