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Allred, Mason Kamana, author.
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Technology -- Religious aspects -- Latter Day Saint churches.
Communication -- Religious aspects -- Latter Day Saint churches.
Mass media -- Religious aspects -- Latter Day Saint churches.
Latter Day Saint churches -- History.
Visions -- History.
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Seeing things : tech...
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Seeing things : technologies of vision and the making of Mormonism / Mason Kamana Allred.
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Allred, Mason Kamana, author.
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Subjects
Technology -- Religious aspects -- Latter Day Saint churches.
Communication -- Religious aspects -- Latter Day Saint churches.
Mass media -- Religious aspects -- Latter Day Saint churches.
Latter Day Saint churches -- History.
Visions -- History.
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9781469672588 (paperback : alk. paper) :
1469672588 (paperback : alk. paper)
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x, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Circulating Specters -- Panoramic Visions -- Sensitive Machines -- Cinematic Traffic -- Micromanaging Death -- Broadcasting Standards.
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"Blending methods of cultural history, religious studies, and media studies, Mason Allred unearths the ways Mormons employed technologies to translate events, beliefs, anxieties, and hopes into reproducible experiences and the growth of their religious system of meaning. By arraying and analyzing technologies intimately commingled with Mormonism's historical development, the book offers a provocative reevaluation of Mormonism's doctrinal focus on materiality and embodiment. While Mormon uses of television and the internet are recent examples of the tradition's use of technology, Allred also attends to neglected and now forgotten technologies that Mormons used for negotiating the spirit, such as panorama displays and magic lantern shows. Allred offers a 'media archaeology' connecting such 'dead' technologies and practices with the present, arguing that Mormons' communion with God and fellow humans was regularly accomplished through these kinds of mediation"--
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