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Intermingling architectural, cultural, and religious history, Louis Nelson reads Anglican architecture and decorative arts as documents of eighteenth-century religious practice and belief. In The Beauty of Holiness, he tells the story of the Church of England in colonial South Carolina, revealing ho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mizruchi, Susan L. (Susan Laura)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008.
Temas:
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Intermingling architectural, cultural, and religious history, Louis Nelson reads Anglican architecture and decorative arts as documents of eighteenth-century religious practice and belief. In The Beauty of Holiness, he tells the story of the Church of England in colonial South Carolina, revealing how the colony's Anglicans negotiated the tensions between the persistence of seventeenth-century religious practice and the rising tide of Enlightenment thought and sentimentality. Nelson begins with a careful examination of the buildings, grave markers, and communion silver fashioned and used by ea.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (355 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-332) and index.
ISBN:9780807887967
080788796X
9781469605678
1469605678