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Sensational Religion

By: Sally Promey

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The result of a collaborative, multiyear project, this groundbreaking book explores the interpretive worlds that inform religious practice and derive from sensory phenomena. Under the rubric of "making sense," the studies assembled here ask, How have people used and valued sensory data? How have they shaped their material and immaterial worlds to encourage or discourage certain kinds or patterns of sensory experience? How have they framed the sensual capacities of images and objects to license a range of behaviors, including iconoclasm, censorship, and accusations of blasphemy or sacrilege? Exposing the dematerialization of religion embedded in secularization theory, editor Sally Promey proposes a fundamental reorientation in understanding the personal, social, political, and cultural work accomplished in religion’s sensory and material practice. Sensational Religion refocuses scholarly attention on the robust material entanglements often discounted by modernity’s metaphysic and on their inextricable connections to human bodies, behaviors, affects, and beliefs.

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Yale University Press

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0300190360

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Spiritual Spectacles

Vision and Image in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Shakerism

By: Sally M. Promey

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Vision and Image in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Shakerism

By: Sally M. Promey

Promey's book is a penetrating analysis of Shaker art.... The book is a gem, a true advance in Shaker studies, art history, religious history, and cultural history. Highly recommended." -- Choice "... a very intelligent and articulate... treatment of a stunning set of message-images." -- Art Bulletin "This book is a pleasure to look at and to read." -- Religious Studies Review "[A] fascinating investigation into another world. The Shaker spirit drawings... offer clues into a remarkable moment of American life, as well as an opportunity to rethink just how the visual arts, religious revitalizations, and social memory relate to one another.... [A] model study: clear, absorbing, and significant."Â -- Neil Harris, author of The Artist in American Society "Sally Promey's inquiry... critically engages current issues in the study of visual culture: what do images do; how do they work; what needs do they fulfill; just what is their 'power'? Her compelling case study joins fundamental concerns of art historians with those of students of religion and history... By means of an exacting examination of Shaker drawings as the site of both expectation and encounter, Promey successfully situates these Spiritual Spectacles at the meeting point of the 'inner' and the 'outer' eye." -- Linda Seidel, author of Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait: Stories of an Icon "Promey has brought to her work an excellent sensitivity to the religious issues involved, keen sight and powers of observation, and a very creative interpretive framework."Â -- Stephen J. Stein, author of The Shaker Experience in America

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Indiana University Press

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0253112656

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9780253112651

Eve's Daughter/Modern Woman

A Mural by Mary Cassatt

By: Sally Webster

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Eve's Daughter/Modern Woman

A Mural by Mary Cassatt

By: Sally Webster

Often regarded as merely the creator of sentimental images of mothers and children or an expatriate heavily influenced by Impressionism, Mary Cassatt is not typically regarded as an artist of radical convictions. This text re-evaluates these dismissals and presents a complete overview of her mural.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252029062

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9780252029066

Painting Religion in Public

John Singer Sargent's Triumph of Religion at the Boston Public Library

By: Sally M. Promey

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Painting Religion in Public

John Singer Sargent's Triumph of Religion at the Boston Public Library

By: Sally M. Promey

Profiles society portrait artist John Singer Sargent and his Triumph of Religion painting for the Boston Public Library, identifying religious opposition that influenced its development in contrast with the artist's vision, and discussing the factors that ultimately prevented the painting's completion. Reprint.

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0691089507

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Spiritual Spectacles

Vision and Image in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Shakerism

By: Sally M. Promey

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Vision and Image in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Shakerism

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Eve's Daughter/Modern Woman

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Painting Religion in Public

Painting Religion in Public

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Sensational Religion

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