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title: Freedom of Worship
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/freedom-of-worship-rockwell-1941/
description: 'Painting by Norman Rockwell, titled ''Freedom of Worship'': a crowd of faces in profile, hands clasped or raised in prayer, one holding a rosary.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Freedom of Worship, 1941 US poster: Painting by Norman Rockwell, titled 'Freedom of Worship': a crowd of faces in profile](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/freedom-of-worship-rockwell-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/freedom-of-worship-rockwell-1941.jpg)

# Freedom of Worship

Painting by Norman Rockwell, titled 'Freedom of Worship': a crowd of faces in profile, hands clasped or raised in prayer, one holding a rosary, under the legend 'Each according to the dictates of his own conscience'. The sheet presents religious liberty as a shared ideal, a glittering-generalities appeal.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
EACH ACCORDING TO THE DICTATES
OF HIS OWN CONSCIENCE
NORMAN ROCKWELL
Freedom of Worship
[imprint:] PAINTED BY NORMAN ROCKWELL FOR THE SATURDAY EVENING POST
```

[← Freedom of Speech](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/freedom-of-speech-rockwell-1941/) [Freedom Shall Prevail! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/freedom-shall-prevail-united-nations-flags-1942/)

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