Drawing on a rich array of historical sources and on in-depth interviews with Protestants, Catholics, and Mormons, Colleen McDannell examines the relationship between religion and mass consumption. She describes examples of nineteenth-century religious practice: Victorians burying their dead in cultivated cemetery parks; Protestants producing and displaying elaborate family Bibles; Catholics wr…
Examines how the religious objects of ordinary Christians, from Bibles and domestic shrines to Jesus t-shirts, reflect their beliefs and indicate a deep religious commitment