Material Christianity : religion and popular culture in America / Colleen McDannell
by Colleen McDannell
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0300064403
- ISBN 13
- 9780300064407
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About This Item
New Haven : Yale University Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Provenance : personal bookplate of John Francis Ashly. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description : x, 312 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. Notes : Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-305) and index.Contents: Material Christianity -- Piety, art, fashion: the religious object -- The Bible in the Victorian home -- The religious symbolism of Laurel Hill Cemetery -- Lourdes water and American Catholicism -- Christian kitsch and the rhetoric of bad taste -- Mormon garments: sacred clothing and the body -- Christian retailing. Subject : Religious articles United States.Christianity United States. Religious articles.
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 378578
- Title
- Material Christianity : religion and popular culture in America / Colleen McDannell
- Author
- Colleen McDannell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0300064403
- ISBN 13
- 9780300064407
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 1995
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