Awards

• Winner of American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Historical Studies 2000
• Winner of American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Historical Studies 2000.

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A fascinating new book... -- The New York Times Painting Religion in Public is a tightly framed study, a model of scholarly argumentation leavened with methodological self-consciousness ... , [It] offers a powerful example of the impact that the study of visual culture can make as an important contribution to many disciplines as fine art and other forms of visual imagery are woven back into the fabric of social, cultural, political, and religious life. -- Daniel A. Siedell, Church History A dense and dazzling must-read. -- Christine Temin, Boston Globe It is most refreshing to have Sargent's mural projects taken seriously at last, and Promey must be congratulated on producing a richly researched, book-length study addressed to one of them. -- Mary Crawford Volk, Burlington Magazine Nearly thirty years in the making, John Singer Sargent's murals for the Special Collections Hall in the Boston Public Library are a paragon of the so-called American Renaissance. Sally M. Promey's engrossing book lays out the whole imbroglio [and] the relationship of the pictures to their architectural setting. -- Keith Miller, Times Literary Supplement By addressing the importance of the visual, Promey's book makes a valuable contribution to an aspect of religion that is often neglected. Promey's integration of American history, art history, religious history, and ritual studies, combined with her meticulous archival research, will help scholars in several disciplines understand the complex cultural currents underlying Sargent's mural project. -- Paula Kane, Journal of the American Academy of Religion

A fascinating new book... The New York Times Painting Religion in Public is a tightly framed study, a model of scholarly argumentation leavened with methodological self-consciousness ... , [It] offers a powerful example of the impact that the study of visual culture can make as an important contribution to many disciplines as fine art and other forms of visual imagery are woven back into the fabric of social, cultural, political, and religious life. -- Daniel A. Siedell Church History A dense and dazzling must-read. -- Christine Temin Boston Globe It is most refreshing to have Sargent's mural projects taken seriously at last, and Promey must be congratulated on producing a richly researched, book-length study addressed to one of them. -- Mary Crawford Volk Burlington Magazine Nearly thirty years in the making, John Singer Sargent's murals for the Special Collections Hall in the Boston Public Library are a paragon of the so-called American Renaissance. Sally M. Promey's engrossing book lays out the whole imbroglio [and] the relationship of the pictures to their architectural setting. -- Keith Miller Times Literary Supplement By addressing the importance of the visual, Promey's book makes a valuable contribution to an aspect of religion that is often neglected. Promey's integration of American history, art history, religious history, and ritual studies, combined with her meticulous archival research, will help scholars in several disciplines understand the complex cultural currents underlying Sargent's mural project. -- Paula Kane Journal of the American Academy of Religion

Author Information

Sally M. Promey is Professor of American Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland. She is author of Spiritual Spectacles: Vision and Image in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Shakerism and contributing author and co-editor of The Visual Culture of American Religions (forthcoming).

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