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Household Gods - The Religious Lives of the Adams Family (Paperback)
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Household Gods - The Religious Lives of the Adams Family (Paperback)
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Reflecting on his past, President John Adams mused that it was
religion that had shaped his family's fortunes and young America's
future. For the nineteenth century's first family, the Adamses of
Massachusetts, the history of how they lived religion was dynamic
and well-documented. Christianity supplied the language that
Abigail used to interpret husband John's political setbacks.
Scripture armed their son John Quincy to act as father, statesman,
and antislavery advocate. Unitarianism gave Abigail's Victorian
grandson, Charles Francis, the religious confidence to persevere in
political battles on the Civil War homefront. By contrast, his son
Henry found religion hollow and repellent compared to the purity of
modern science. A renewal of faith led Abigail's great-grandson
Brooks, a Gilded Age critic of capitalism, to prophesy two world
wars. Globetrotters who chronicled their religious journeys
extensively, the Adamses ultimately developed a cosmopolitan
Christianity that blended discovery and criticism, faith and doubt.
Drawing from their rich archive, Sara Georgini, series editor for
The Papers of John Adams, demonstrates how pivotal Christianity-as
the different generations understood it-was in shaping the family's
decisions, great and small. Spanning three centuries of faith from
Puritan New England to the Jazz Age, Household Gods tells a new
story of American religion, as the Adams family lived it.
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