In this book, Jamie L. Brummitt upends long-held assumptions about religion and material culture in the early United States by recovering the forgotten history and presence of Protestant relics. This book will be an essential resource for scholars and students of early American history, religion, politics, art, and popular culture.
In this book, Jamie L. Brummitt upends long-held assumptions about religion and material culture in the early United States by recovering the forgotten history and presence of Protestant relics. This book will be an essential resource for scholars and students of early American history, religion, politics, art, and popular culture.
Jamie L. Brummitt is an Associate Professor of American Religions in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
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* Acknowledgments * List of Illustrations * Introduction. The History and Presence of Protestant Relics * Chapter 1. From "Memorials and Signs" to "Art That Can Immortalize": The Evangelical Enlightenment's Influence on Real Presence in Protestant Relic Culture * Chapter 2. The "Precious Relict[s]" of George Whitefield: Collecting the Supernatural Memory Objects of a Dead Minister and the Spread of Masculine Mourning in Late Eighteenth-Century Evangelicalism * Chapter 3. The "Invaluable Relique[s]" of George Washington: Sensing the Heavenly Presence of America's Savior and the Politics of Protestant Relics in the Early Republic * Chapter 4. "The Reign of Embroidered Mourning Pieces": The Rise and Decline of Handmade Relics in Young Protestant Women's Education and the "Feminization" of Mourning * Chapter 5. "A Sacred Relic Kept": The Evangelical "Good" Death Experience and Protestant Relics in the Marketplace * Chapter 6. "Protestant Evidence on the Subject of Relics": Catholic Encounters with Protestant Relic Practices and the Christian Roots of American Civil Religion * Chapter 7. "I Was Not a Slave with These Pictured Memorials": Supernatural Sense Experiences as Justifications for Slavery and the Work of Protestant Relics in Black Liberation * Conclusion. The Deaths and Afterlives of Protestant Relics: Or, Why Enlightened People Forgot the History and Presence of Protestant Relics * Abbreviations * Notes * Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgments * List of Illustrations * Introduction. The History and Presence of Protestant Relics * Chapter 1. From "Memorials and Signs" to "Art That Can Immortalize": The Evangelical Enlightenment's Influence on Real Presence in Protestant Relic Culture * Chapter 2. The "Precious Relict[s]" of George Whitefield: Collecting the Supernatural Memory Objects of a Dead Minister and the Spread of Masculine Mourning in Late Eighteenth-Century Evangelicalism * Chapter 3. The "Invaluable Relique[s]" of George Washington: Sensing the Heavenly Presence of America's Savior and the Politics of Protestant Relics in the Early Republic * Chapter 4. "The Reign of Embroidered Mourning Pieces": The Rise and Decline of Handmade Relics in Young Protestant Women's Education and the "Feminization" of Mourning * Chapter 5. "A Sacred Relic Kept": The Evangelical "Good" Death Experience and Protestant Relics in the Marketplace * Chapter 6. "Protestant Evidence on the Subject of Relics": Catholic Encounters with Protestant Relic Practices and the Christian Roots of American Civil Religion * Chapter 7. "I Was Not a Slave with These Pictured Memorials": Supernatural Sense Experiences as Justifications for Slavery and the Work of Protestant Relics in Black Liberation * Conclusion. The Deaths and Afterlives of Protestant Relics: Or, Why Enlightened People Forgot the History and Presence of Protestant Relics * Abbreviations * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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