Religion in Plain View - Public Aesthetics of American Display

A revelatory critique of public display in the United States. In Religion in Plain View, Sally M. Promey analyzes religion-s visible saturation of American public space and the histories that shaped this exhibitionary aesthetics. In street art, vehicle d-r, signs, monuments, architecture, zoning policy, and more, Promey exposes American display-s merger of evangelicalism, capitalism, and imperialism. From this convergence, display materializes a distinctly American drive to advertise, claim territory, invalidate competitors, and fabricate a tractable national heritage. Charting this aesthetics- strategic work as a Protestant technology of White nation formation, Religion in Plain View offers a dynamic critique of the ways public display perpetuates deeply ingrained assumptions about the proper shape of life and land in the United States.