Spiritual spectacles : vision and image in mid-nineteenth-century Shakerism

Spiritual spectacles : vision and image in mid-nineteenth-century Shakerism /

Among the lesser known artifacts of Shakerism are many elaborate drawings and paintings produced under inspiration between 1839 and 1859. In a community which generally prohibited images, believers intended these exceptional religious pictures to enhance spiritual vision; the images thus functioned...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Promey, Sally M., 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1993.
Series:Religion in North America
Subjects:
Shakers > United States > History > 19th century.
Shakers.
1800 - 1899
Shaker art.
Christian art and symbolism > United States.
Imágenes religiosas, Arte de.
Simbolismo en el arte > Historia > Siglo XIX.
Christian art and symbolism.
United States.
Christian art and symbolism > United States
Geschichte > 1830-1870
Shaker art
Shakers > United States > History > 19th century
History.

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