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Religion, Art, and Money - Episcopalians and American Culture from the Civil War to the Great Depression (Hardcover)
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Religion, Art, and Money - Episcopalians and American Culture from the Civil War to the Great Depression (Hardcover)
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This cultural history of mainline Protestantism and American
cities-most notably, New York City-focuses on wealthy, urban
Episcopalians and the influential ways they used their money. Peter
W. Williams argues that such Episcopalians, many of them the
country's most successful industrialists and financiers, left a
deep and lasting mark on American urban culture. Their sense of
public responsibility derived from a sacramental theology that gave
credit to the material realm as a vehicle for religious experience
and moral formation, and they came to be distinguished by their
participation in major aesthetic and social welfare endeavors.
Williams traces how the church helped transmit a European-inflected
artistic patronage that was adapted to the American scene by clergy
and laity intent upon providing moral and aesthetic leadership for
a society in flux. Episcopalian influence is most visible today in
the churches, cathedrals, and elite boarding schools that stand in
many cities and other locations, but Episcopalians also provided
major support to the formation of stellar art collections, the
performing arts, and the Arts and Crafts movement. Williams argues
that Episcopalians thus helped smooth the way for acceptance of
materiality in religious culture in a previously iconoclastic,
Puritan-influenced society.
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