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Author Winner, Lauren F.

Title A cheerful and comfortable faith [electronic resource] : Anglican religious practice in the elite households of eighteenth-century Virginia / Lauren F. Winner.

Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description ix, 272 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents With cold water and silver bowls : becoming an Anglican in eighteenth-century Virginia -- Becoming a "Christian woman" : needlework and girls' religious formation -- People of the book: liturgical culture and the domestic uses of prayer books -- Sarah Foote Stuart's fish sauce: the liturgical year around the table -- To comfort the living : the household choreography of death and mourning -- Epilogue. Lucy Smith Digges's "Little old fashioned oblong black walnut" table : household religious practice in Episcopalian Virginia.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Episcopal Church -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century.
Virginia -- Religious life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780300124699 (cloth alk. paper)
0300124694 (cloth alk. paper)
9780300168662 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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