The Beauty of Holiness : Anglicanism and Architecture in Colonial South Carolina.

By: Nelson, Louis PMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Richard Hampton Jenrette Series in Architecture and the Decorative Arts SerPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (496 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780807887981Subject(s): Anglican church buildings -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century | Anglican Communion -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century | Architecture, Colonial -- South Carolina | Material culture -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century | South Carolina -- Religious life and customsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Beauty of Holiness : Anglicanism and Architecture in Colonial South CarolinaDDC classification: 726.5/80975709033 LOC classification: NA5230.S68 -- N45 2009ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: Constructing Material Religion -- 1. The City Churches -- 2. The Diversity of Countries, Times, and Men's Manners -- 3. Builders and Building Culture -- PART II: Belief and Ritual in Material Religion -- 4. Sensing the Sacred -- 5. The Sacramental Body -- 6. The Beauty of Holiness -- PART III: Material Religion and Social Practice -- 7. Carolina in Ye West Indies -- 8. Anglican Architecture and Civic Order -- 9. Pulpits, Pews, and Power -- PART IV: Revolutionary Changes to Material Religion -- 10. Building the "Holy City" -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: 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 early Anglicans. Turning to the religious functions of local churches, he uses these objects and artifacts to explore Anglican belief and practice in South Carolina. Chapters focus on the role of the senses in religious understanding, the practice of the sacraments, and the place of beauty, regularity, and order in eighteenth-century Anglicanism. The final section of the book considers the ways church architecture and material culture reinforced social and political hierarchies. Richly illustrated with more than 250 architectural images and photographs of religious objects, The Beauty of Holiness depends on exhaustive fieldwork to track changes in historical architecture. Nelson imaginatively reconstructs the history of the Church of England in colonial South Carolina and its role in public life, from its early years of ambivalent standing within the colony through the second wave of Anglicanism beginning in the early 1750s.
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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: Constructing Material Religion -- 1. The City Churches -- 2. The Diversity of Countries, Times, and Men's Manners -- 3. Builders and Building Culture -- PART II: Belief and Ritual in Material Religion -- 4. Sensing the Sacred -- 5. The Sacramental Body -- 6. The Beauty of Holiness -- PART III: Material Religion and Social Practice -- 7. Carolina in Ye West Indies -- 8. Anglican Architecture and Civic Order -- 9. Pulpits, Pews, and Power -- PART IV: Revolutionary Changes to Material Religion -- 10. Building the "Holy City" -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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 early Anglicans. Turning to the religious functions of local churches, he uses these objects and artifacts to explore Anglican belief and practice in South Carolina. Chapters focus on the role of the senses in religious understanding, the practice of the sacraments, and the place of beauty, regularity, and order in eighteenth-century Anglicanism. The final section of the book considers the ways church architecture and material culture reinforced social and political hierarchies. Richly illustrated with more than 250 architectural images and photographs of religious objects, The Beauty of Holiness depends on exhaustive fieldwork to track changes in historical architecture. Nelson imaginatively reconstructs the history of the Church of England in colonial South Carolina and its role in public life, from its early years of ambivalent standing within the colony through the second wave of Anglicanism beginning in the early 1750s.

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