Maynooth University Department of History

Speaker: Professor Sally M. Promey (Professor of American Studies and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Professor of Religion and Visual Culture, Institute of Sacred Music; Director, Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion; Faculty Affiliate, History of Art, Yale University)
Synopsis
Professor Promey’s research discerns and demonstrates a common ‘testimonial aesthetic’ and a consequent ‘material establishment’ in the twentieth-and twenty-first-century histories of American religious and commercial display.