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Beloved Strangers: Interfaith Families in Nineteenth Century America
by
Anne C. Rose
Interfaith marriage is a visible and often controversial part of American life--and one with a significant history. This is the first historical study of religious diversity in the home. Anne Rose draws a vivid picture of interfaith marriages over the century before World War I, their problems and their social consequences. She shows how mixed-faith families became agents...more
Hardcover, 304 pages
Published
October 15th 2001
by Harvard University Press
(first published 2001)
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Mar 09, 2009
Jennifer Payne
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students of the history of religion in America, social history, families
This was one of the most thought-provoking books I read as part of my research into the private lives of mid-nineteenth century couples. Although focusing mostly on Christian-Jewish marriages, a few Protestant-Catholic families are profiled here. Perhaps the most enlightening was that of William Tecumseh Sherman and his devoutly Catholic wife Ellen Ewing Sherman. They had grown up in the same household and so her religious beliefs were of no suprise to him, yet her devotion sat uneasily with him...more
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