A Catalogue of Books in the Library of the American Antiquarian Society
A Catalogue of Books in the Library of the American Antiquarian Society

Author: American Antiquarian Society

Publisher:

Published: 1837

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13:

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Collection includes about 8,000 vols. donated by Isaiah Thomas, founder of the Society. The catalogue is "almost wholly the work of the late lamented librarian, Christopher C. Baldwin ... completed and brought up to the present date by ... Maturin L. Fisher."

The Origins of Women's Activism
The Origins of Women's Activism

Author: Anne M. Boylan

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9780807854044

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Tracing the roots of women's voluntary activism in the decades following the Revolution, Boylan examines over 70 organizations founded in New York and Boston and led by women from across the spectrum: Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish; African American and white; middle- and working-class.

The Lure of Images
The Lure of Images

Author: David Morgan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-08-26

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1000158306

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This is the history of the relationship between mass produced visual media and religion in the United States. It is a journey from the 1780s to the present - from early evangelical tracts to teenage witches and televangelists, and from illustrated books to contemporary cinema. David Morgan explores the cultural marketplace of public representation, showing how American religionists have made special use of visual media to instruct the public, to practice devotion and ritual, and to form children and converts. Examples include: studying Jesus as an American idol Jewish kitchens and Christian Parlors Billy Sunday and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the anti-slavery movement. This unique perspective reveals the importance of visual media to the construction and practice of sectarian and national community in a nation of immigrants old and new, and the tensions between the assimilation and the preservation of ethnic and racial identities. As well as the contribution of visual media to the religious life of Christians and Jews, Morgan shows how images have informed the perceptions and practices of other religions in America, including New Age, Buddhist and Hindu spirituality, and Mormonism, Native American Religions and the Occult.