Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-xbtfd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-05T21:44:06.498Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

2 - The Usable Death: Evangelicals, Anglicans, and the Politics of Dying in the Late-Colonial Lowcountry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2014

Craig Thompson Friend
Affiliation:
North Carolina State University
Lorri Glover
Affiliation:
St Louis University, Missouri
Get access

Summary

This chapter examines historical understanding of dying in the early South by emphasizing its local context. The setting is Archibald Simpson's two Lowcountry parishes, Indian Land and Saltcatcher, circa 1770. In the very public setting of the funeral service, Anglican and evangelical practices frequently clashed, exposing some of the deepest fault lines in the community. The politics of dying made it important to craft and control these stories to block or advance personal, social, and political agendas. Although evangelical and Anglican funerals had some common rituals and drew from many of the same scriptural texts, the similarities ended there. Evangelical funerals featured extemporaneous prayer, singing, a brief burying ritual at the graveside, and a sermon or discourse, in eighteenth-century parlance. In the context of an Anglican establishment and an embattled evangelical movement, death narratives were just as important to legitimating their religion as stories of remarkable conversions and spectacular revivals.
Type
Chapter
Information
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2014

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×