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- Title
Religious History and Visual Culture.
- Authors
McDannell, Colleen
- Abstract
The article reports on the U.S. Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographs, taken in the 1930s and 1940s as part of then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, and the author's use of them to study Christian communities. The author explains that he studied the collection looking for illustrations of how people used religious objects and images in their homes and found many examples of "material Christianity" including crucifixes, scripture mottoes, and church calendars. He also found in the collection photographs of churches, gospel trucks, religious rituals and social gatherings, and church leaders. He discusses the difficulties in researching the subjects of the photographs and the ways the photographs represent African Americans and religion in the U.S. of the time.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PHOTOGRAPHS; UNITED States history; AFRICAN American religions; RELIGIOUS articles; UNITED States history, 1933-1945; RELIGION &; sociology; PICTURES; MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
Journal of American History, 2007, Vol 94, Issue 1, p112
- ISSN
0021-8723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/25094780