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The Beauty of Holiness: Anglicanism & Architecture in Colonial South Carolina First Edition
Author(s): Louis P. Nelson (Author)
- Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date: February 1, 2009
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 496 pages
- ISBN-10: 0807832332
- ISBN-13: 9780807832332
Book Description
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
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About the Author
Louis P. Nelson is associate professor and chair of the Department of Architectural History at the University of Virginia.
