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The Beauty of Holiness

Anglicanism and Architecture in Colonial South Carolina [Paperback]

by Louis P Nelson

    • Author

      Louis P Nelson

    • Book Format

      Paperback / softback

    • Publisher

      University of North Carolina Press

    • Published

      January 2015

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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 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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      • Author

        Louis P Nelson

      • Book Format

        Paperback / softback

      • Publisher

        University of North Carolina Press

      • Published

        January 2015

      • Weight

        1058g

      • Page Count

        496

      • Dimensions

        204 x 277 x 26 mm

      • ISBN

        9781469623849

      • ISBN-10

        1469623846

      • Eden Code

        4377058

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      • Author/Creator: Louis P Nelson

      • ISBN: 9781469623849

      • Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

      • Release Date: January 2015

      • Weight: 1058g

      • Dimensions: 204 x 277 x 26 mm

      • Eden Code: 4377058


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