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Author Williams, Peter W., author.

Title Religion, art, and money : Episcopalians and American culture from the Civil War to the Great Depression / Peter W. Williams
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

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Contents Introduction. Three ways of looking at an Episcopalian -- Churches -- Phillips Brooks and Trinity Church : symbols for an age -- The Gothic revival and the arts and crafts movement -- The great American cathedrals -- Gospels -- The social gospel -- The gospel of education -- The gospel of wealth and the gospel of art -- Epilogue. The irony of American Episcopal history
Summary This is 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Episcopal Church -- History -- 19th century
Episcopal Church -- History -- 20th century
Episcopal Church -- Influence
SUBJECT Episcopal Church fast
Subject Episcopalians -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Episcopalians -- United States -- History -- 20th century
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Anglican.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Episcopalian.
Episcopalians
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
SUBJECT United States -- Church history -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139928
United States -- Church history -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139929
Subject United States
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469628134
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9781469626987
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