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The Beauty of Holiness - Anglicanism and Architecture in Colonial South Carolina (Paperback)
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The Beauty of Holiness - Anglicanism and Architecture in Colonial South Carolina (Paperback)
Series: Richard Hampton Jenrette Series in Architecture and the Decorative Arts
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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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