Religion in Plain View

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Public Aesthetics of American Display

By Professor Sally M. Promey and Sally M. Promey

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A revelatory critique of public display in the United States. In Religion in Plain View, Sally M. Promey analyses 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,... Read More

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Religion in Plain View

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A revelatory critique of public display in the United States.

In Religion in Plain View, Sally M. Promey analyses 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 materialises 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780226832333

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 18 November 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Chicago Press

Illustration: 133 color plates

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 58.0mm

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 1901g

Pages: 560

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About the Author

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.