Vernacular Religion in Robert Frank’s The Americans

Deborah Dash Moore

University of Michigan

Leonard Primiano, “Vernacular Religion and the Search for Method in Religious Folklife” (1995)�

“Vernacular religion is more than a purely conceptual term, a methodological abstraction without any practical utility. Full understanding of this term establishes a methodological foundation from which the vernacular study of religion will grow as a method of practice, a way of doing ethnography that has not been considered before.”

Ranch Market, Hollywood

Robert Frank, from The Americans

Jehovah’s Witness

Robert Frank, from The Americans

“Santa Fe, New Mexico”

Robert Frank, from The Americans

St. Francis, Gas Station, and City Hall⎼Los Angeles

Robert Frank, from The Americans