A cheerful and comfortable faith
Subtitle: Anglican religious practice in the elite households of eighteenth-century Virginia
By: Lauren F. Winner.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300124699
Subjects: Episcopal Church -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century; Virginia -- Religious life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: With cold water and silver bowls : becoming an Anglican in eighteenth-century Virginia; title: Becoming a "Christian woman" : needlework and girls' religious formation; title: People of the book: liturgical culture and the domestic uses of prayer books; title: Sarah Foote Stuart's fish sauce: the liturgical year around the table; title: To comfort the living : the household choreography of death and mourning; title: Epilogue. Lucy Smith Digges's "Little old fashioned oblong black walnut" table : household religious practice in Episcopalian Virginia.