Spiritual spectacles : vision and image in mid-nineteenth-century Shakerism / Sally M. Promey.
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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[1993]
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| Series: | Religion in North America.
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Main Collection
| Call Number: |
N6510 .P76 1993 |
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| Status: | Available Request this item |