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Gothic Arches, Latin Crosses - Anti-Catholicism and American Church Designs in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback, New edition)
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Gothic Arches, Latin Crosses - Anti-Catholicism and American Church Designs in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback, New edition)
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Crosses, candles, choir vestments, and stained glass are common
church features found in nearly all mainline denominations of
American Christianity today. Most Protestant churchgoers would be
surprised to learn, however, that at one time these elements were
viewed with suspicion as foreign implements associated strictly
with the Roman Catholic Church. Blending history with the study of
material culture, Ryan K. Smith sheds light on the ironic
convergence of anti-Catholicism and the Gothic Revival movement in
nineteenth-century America. Smith finds the source for both
movements in the sudden rise of Roman Catholicism after 1820, when
it began to grow from a tiny minority into the country's largest
single religious body. Its growth triggered a corresponding rise in
anti-Catholic activities. At the same time, Catholic worship
increasingly attracted young, genteel observers around the country.
Its art and its tangible access to the sacred meshed well with the
era's romanticism and market-based materialism. Smith argues that
these tensions led Protestant churches to break with tradition and
adopt recognizably Latin art. He shows how architectural and
artistic features became tools through which Protestants adapted to
America's new commercialization while simultaneously defusing the
potent Catholic ""threat."" The results presented a colorful new
religious landscape, but they also illustrated the durability of
traditional religious boundaries.
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