| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 189 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Religion and American culture
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Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Based on the author's Ph. D. thesis (Duke University, 2005). |
| Contents |
What has grape juice to do with common sense? -- Alcohol and science -- Alcohol and the overthrow of reason -- Alcohol, the ideal worker, and the poisoned chalice -- Alcohol and the truth of the Gospel -- Common sense and the common cup -- Juice and cups or wine and chalice? : concluding thoughts on symbolism and minor vices. |
| Summary |
This work examines the introduction of grape juice into the celebration of Holy Communion in the late 19th century Methodist Episcopal Church and reveals how a 1,800-year-old practice of using fermented communion wine became theologically incomprehensible in a mere forty years. Through study of denominational publications, influential exegetical works, popular fiction and songs, and didactic moral literature, Jennifer Woodruff Tait charts the development of opposing symbolic associations for wine and grape juice. She argues that 19th century Methodists, steeped in Baconian models of science a. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Methodist Episcopal Church -- Doctrines -- History -- 19th century.
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Methodist Episcopal Church. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Civil war -- Religious aspects -- Methodist Episcopal Church. |
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Methodist Episcopal Church -- Doctrines -- History -- 19th century. |
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Lord's Supper -- Wine -- History of doctrines -- 19th century.
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Lord's Supper -- Wine. |
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Lord's Supper -- Methodist Episcopal Church -- History of doctrines -- 19th century.
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Lord's Supper -- Methodist Episcopal Church. |
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Temperance and religion -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Temperance and religion. |
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United States. |
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Grape juice -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Grape juice. |
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United States -- Church history -- 19th century.
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Church history. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Church history.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tait, Jennifer L. Woodruff. Poisoned chalice. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2011 9780817317195 (DLC) 2010032808 (OCoLC)644655321 |
| ISBN |
9780817384906 (electronic book) |
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0817384901 (electronic book) |
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9780817317195 |
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0817317198 |
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0817356975 |
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9780817356972 |
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