Visual Culture and American Religions

Schwain, Kristin

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“…This is in part due to the importance of consumerism and consumption as themes within material culture studies. 33 This emphasis when applied to religion tends to foreground kitsch at the expense of mainstream devotional artifacts.…”

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Introduction: Material Culture and Catholic History

Miller¹

2015

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After setting out some of the reasons Catholicism developed a rich array of devotional and liturgical objects, this introduction to the centennial special issue of The Catholic Historical Review on Catholic material culture traces a brief history of the emergence of material culture studies while noting the contributions of Catholic scholars to it. It also defines material culture and describes several of the field’s approaches as exemplified by essays in the special issue. Strengths and weaknesses of these approaches are also noted.

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“…1 1 This article is indebted to other state‐of‐the‐field articles, including McDannell (1991); Schwain (2010); Promey and Brisman (2010); Hazard (2013); and Nelson (2019). …”

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The material study of American Protestantism

Brummitt

2022

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This article traces the history of the material study of American Protestantism from the 1980s to today. In the 1980s, a few scholars of American religions started to incorporate material culture studies into their work. They examined religious images, objects, places, and practices according to new interdisciplinary methods. By the mid‐1990s, the material study of American Protestantism exploded and emerged as a distinct subfield in the study of American religions. This subfield gave way to four general approaches, including studying American Protestantism as print culture, visual culture, material sensations, and new materialism. This article also presents themes that invigorate the subfield today, such as studying presence in Protestantism, texts as objects, the agency of objects, Black religious experiences, gender and sexuality, and cross‐cultural encounters. It concludes by offering insights into the influences and challenges of the subfield, as well as areas in the subfield that invite more research.

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Approaches to Visual Culture and Religion

Uehlinger

2015

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Written from the point of view of a historian of religion\s, the article asks why the so-called “visual turn” has not left a major effect on the study of religion\s as an academic discipline and how things could be improved to that effect. It offers a synthetic account of earlier and contemporary involvements of scholars of religion and scholarly networks with images and visual culture, pointing to a general lack of sustained training and little exposure to relevant methodology and theory developed in relevant neighbouring disciplines. The author argues that the study of religion\s would benefit from increased attention to images and visual culture, emphasizing the potential of earlier (iconology in the Warburg-Panofsky tradition and the Groningen trajectory) as well as more recent approaches developed in Europe and theu.s., which theorize the visual in terms of visual culture, visual media, visual and scopic regimes, religious aesthetics and material religion.

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Visual Culture and American Religions

Cited by 4 publications

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Introduction: Material Culture and Catholic History

Introduction: Material Culture and Catholic History

The material study of American Protestantism

Approaches to Visual Culture and Religion

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