Household Gods
The Religious Lives of the Adams Family
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 24 January 2023
- ISBN 9780197647219
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages296 pages
- Size 156x236x17 mm
- Weight 426 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 19 halftones 432
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Short description:
Household Gods is a 300-year story of religious exploration and discovery, as told by early America's first family, the Adamses of Massachusetts, as they navigated faith and doubt in the growing nation--and beyond.
MoreLong description:
Reflecting on his past, President John Adams mused that it was religion that had shaped his family's fortunes and young America's future. For the nineteenth century's first family, the Adamses of Massachusetts, the history of how they lived religion was dynamic and well-documented. Christianity supplied the language that Abigail used to interpret husband John's political setbacks. Scripture armed their son John Quincy to act as father, statesman, and antislavery advocate. Unitarianism gave Abigail's Victorian grandson, Charles Francis, the religious confidence to persevere in political battles on the Civil War homefront. By contrast, his son Henry found religion hollow and repellent compared to the purity of modern science. A renewal of faith led Abigail's great-grandson Brooks, a Gilded Age critic of capitalism, to prophesy two world wars.
Globetrotters who chronicled their religious journeys extensively, the Adamses ultimately developed a cosmopolitan Christianity that blended discovery and criticism, faith and doubt. Drawing from their rich archive, Sara Georgini, series editor for The Papers of John Adams, demonstrates how pivotal Christianity--as the different generations understood it--was in shaping the family's decisions, great and small. Spanning three centuries of faith from Puritan New England to the Jazz Age, Household Gods tells a new story of American religion, as the Adams family lived it.
Its sweep through generations allows readers to feel the change of centuries in the intimate ruminations of thoughtful people. It offers a clear narrative that students can learn much from, particularly when they compare the voices of the Adamses with those of the many Americans who disputed their vantage point on U.S. Christianity.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Providence of John and Abigail Adams
Chapter 2: John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams at Prayer
Chapter 3: Charles Francis Adams on Pilgrimage
Chapter 4: The Cosmopolitan Christianity of Henry Adams
Chapter 5: Higher than a City upon a Hill
Notes
Index
