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The Lure of Images: A History of Religion and Visual Media in America. By David Morgan. (New York: Routledge, 2007. xii, 308 pp. Cloth, $125.00, ISBN 978-0-415-40914-8. Paper, $35.95, ISBN 978-0-415-40915-5.)
Religious Americans, Valparaiso University professor David Morgan contends, have long used pictures and other images in myriad ways. Sensitive to both the history of art and the history of religion in America, Morgan chronicles how Americans have used images and how the type of visual representations has changed—from the printed word to lithographs hung in Victorian parlors to the New Age appropriation of Native American symbols. . . .
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