MSRLMAI copy Purchased from the C. Michael Gooden Endowment.
Contents:
Religious sites -- Arch Street Meeting House -- Reinterpretation of the Arch Street Meeting House / Lynne Calamia -- The California Missions Trail -- California missions / Elizabeth Kryder-Reid -- Ephrata Cloister -- Interpreting religion at Ephrata Cloister / Michael S. Showalter and Nick Siegert -- Hancock Shaker Village -- Hancock Shaker Village -- Hancock Shaker Village: training for staff and docents who interpret religion / Todd Burdick -- Joseph Smith Family Farm -- Facilitating a reverential experience / Gary L. Boatright Jr. -- Kirtland Temple -- Kirtland Temple: creating sacred space for pilgrimage / Barbara B. Walden -- Mary Baker Eddy Library -- Fervent hearts, willing hands: Christian Science in nineteenth-century context / Katherine Connell -- Museum at Eldridge Street -- Interpreting the Eldridge Street Synagogue: two dialogues / Amy Stein-Milford and Richard Rabinowitz -- U.S. Capitol -- "In God we trust": interpreting religion in the U.S. Capitol / Fred W. Beuttler -- Historic sites -- Andrew Jackson's Hermitage -- Reform and religion at Andrew Jackson's Hermitage / Marsha Mullin -- The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation -- Satisfaction through honesty / Stephen Seals -- Conner Prairie -- Religion at Conner Prairie / Catherine Hughes -- George Washington's Mount Vernon -- Interpreting religion in the life of a founding father / Mary V. Thompson -- Hawaii Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives -- Revisiting the historical role of the ABCFM missionaries in Hawaii / Thomas A. Woods -- Gettysburg Seminary Ridge Museum -- Talk-back boards and religion / Josh Howard -- Lower East Side Tenement Museum -- Interpreting religion at the Tenement Museum / Annie Polland -- Newport World Heritage Commission -- Interpreting tolerance to a skeptical world: the case of colonial Newport and Providence / Ken Yellis -- Old Economy Village -- Religious interpretation at Old Economy Village / David Miller -- Southeastern Pennsylvania historic sites and houses -- Interpreting the diversity of Pennsylvania German religion at historical house museums / Cynthia G. Falk -- Museum exhibitions -- Abbe Museum -- Religious appropriation issues and the Abbe Museum / Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko and Geo Soctomah Neptune -- American Revolution Museum at Yorktown -- Interpreting religion at the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown / K. Lara Templin -- Arab American National Museum -- Interpreting religion at the Arab American National Museum / Petra Alsoofy -- Delaware Historical Society -- Forging faith, building freedom: African American faith experiences in Delaware, 1800-1980 / Constance J. Cooper -- Jewish Museum of Maryland -- Chosen food: eggrolls, Oreos, and Judaism in the Museum / Karen Falk -- Minnesota History Center -- Interpreting religion in Peb Yog Hmoob--we are Hmong Minnesota / Brian Horrigan --
National Museum of African American History and Culture -- Black sacred objects and the matter of religious meanings: a case study from the National Museum of African American History and Culture / Eric Lewis Williams -- National Museum of American History -- Religion in early America: an exhibition at the National Museum of American History / David K. Allison -- National Museum of the Civil War Soldier at Pamplin Historical Park -- Interpreting the religious life of Civil War soldiers at Pamplin Historical Park / A. Wilson Greene -- The Rosenbach and the Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia -- Religion on display: three exhibitions at the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Rosenbach / Katherine Haas -- Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library -- Open the doors and see all the people: interpreting Pennsylvania German material cutlure and religion / Lisa Minardi -- Scholarly approaches for religion in history museums / Gretchen Buggeln -- Issues in historical interpretation: why interpreting religion is so difficult / Barbara Franco -- Religion in museum spaces and places / Gretchen Buggeln -- Strategies and techniques for interpreting religion / Barbara Franco -- Interpreting religion at museums and historic sites: the work ahead / Gretchen Buggeln and Barbara Franco
Summary:
"Interpreting Religion at Museums and Historic Sites encourages readers to consider the history of religion as integral to American culture and provides a practical guide for any museum to include interpretation of religious traditions in its programs and exhibits"-- Provided by publisher.
