Objects of devotion
Subtitle: religion in early America
By: Peter Manseau
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781588345929
Subjects: Material culture; History; Religion; Church history; Religious aspects; Christianity
Description: vii, 251 pages : 26 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / John L. Gray, Elizabeth MacMillan, Director National Museum of American History; title: Introduction; title: New England. The Bay Psalm Book ; John Eliot's Algonquian Bible ; Wampum ; The Winthrop cup ; John Winthrop ; Anne Hutchinson ; Roger Williams's compass sundial ; The First Baptist Church in America ; Touro Synagogue ; Tituba ; Cotton Mather ; Children's letter books ; Jonathan Edwards ; Phillis Wheatley ; Revere and Son church bell ; The Shakers ; Edward Bass's Book of Common Prayer ; Lucretia Mott's bonnet ; Old Round Church ; Abington Congregational Church ; Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptist Association ; John Adams's letters to Thomas Jefferson ; Mary Moody Emerson ; Olde Meeting House; title: The mid-Atlantic. First Dutch Reformed Congregation of New York ; Iron Cross from the Ark and the Dove ; Andrew White ; Old Swedes Church ; William Penn ; George Washington Inaugural Bible ; A Revolutionary Torah scroll ; Thomas Paine ; Freeborn Garrettson's saddlebags ; Richard Allen's hymnal ; Jarena Lee ; American samplers ; Fraktur baptismal certificate ; Sunday toys ; Mourning jewelry ; Ephrata Cloister ; Cornplanter and Handsome Lake ; The Book of Mormon ; The peaceable kingdom ; Johnny Appleseed ; Carroll Family Tabernacle ; Archbishop Carroll's chalice and paten ; "The metropolis of American Catholicism" ; Elizabeth Ann Seton ; Mother Lange of Baltimore ; Mikveh Israel ; Rebecca Gratz ; Joseph Madison's notes for a speech on Constitutional amendments; title: The South. George Whitefield's pulpit ; The Wesley Brothers ; Francis Asbury's powder horn and trunk ; The life and morals of Jesus of Nazareth ; Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an ; The Bilali document ; Omar ibn Said ; Trade beads ; Nat Turner ; Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church ; Embroidered Exodus ; Stickball ; The Ten Thousand Name Petition ; John Leland ; Baptist collection basket ; George Mason's Baptismal bowl ; George Washington's christening robe ; Martha Washington's Bible ; The Jews of the South ; Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Ursuline Sisters of New Orleans ; Marie Laveau ; Cane Ridge Meeting House; title: Beyond the borders. San Rafael Santo ; San Juan Nepomuceno Santo ; Virgen de Monserrat Santo ; Cathedral Basilica of Saint Augustine ; Pope ; Retablo of Santo Nino de Atocha ; Mission elk-hide painting ; Retablo of Our Lady of Guadalupe ; El Santuario de Chimayo ; Junipero Serra ; Yeung Wo Temple ; Torah mantle; title: Conclusion.