The Christian Home in Victorian America, 1840--1900

by Colleen McDannell

Overview

"... wonderfully imaginative and provocative in its
interdisciplinary approach to the study of nineteenth-century American religion and
women's role within it."Â  -- Choice

"... an important
addition to the fields of religious studies, women's history, and American cultural
history." -- Journal of the American Academy of
Religion

"... a complete and complex portrait of the
Christian home." -- The Journal of American History

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253113566
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	03/22/1994
Series:	Religion in North America
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

COLLEEN MCDANNELL is Associate Professor of History and Sterling M.
McMurrin Chair in Religious Studies at the University of Utah and co-author (with
Bernhard Lang) of Heaven: A History.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J.
Stein
Preface

1. Church, Home, and Society
2.
Domestic Architecture and the Protestant
3. Catholic
Domesticity
4. Rituals of the Hearth
5. Leaders at the Domestic
Altar: The Paternal Model
6. Leaders at the Domestic Altar: The Maternal
Model

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index