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Informationen zum Autor Gretchen Buggeln holds the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christianity and the Arts at Valparaiso University. She previously was associate professor and director of the residential research program at the Winterthur Museum. Buggeln is the author of Temples of Grace: The Material Transformation of Connecticut's Churches, 1970-1840 (2003)and The Suburban Church: Modernism and Community in Postwar America (2015), as well as numerous articles on religious architecture and artifacts, museums, and American religious history. She is co-editor, with Crispin Paine and S. Brent Plate, of Religion in Museums: Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2017). Barbara Franco has had a long career in American history museums as a curator and administrator and most recently served as Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and as Founding Director of the Gettysburg Seminary Ridge Museum. She served as a past chairman of the American Association for State and Local History and co-edited Ideas and Images: Developing Interpretive History Exhibits (1992).She has written numerous articles on museum practice and historical interpretation, and currently works as an independent scholar and museum consultant. Klappentext Interpreting Religion at Museums and Historic Sitesencourages 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Acknowledgments Part I Case Studies Chapter 1. Religious Sites Arch Street Meeting House, Reinterpretation of the Arch Street Meeting House, Lynne Calamia 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 - Training for Staff & Docents Who Interpret Religion, Todd Burdick Joseph Smith 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 DialoguesAmy Stein Milford and Richard Rabinowitz United States Capitol Visitor Center "In God We Trust" - Interpreting Religion in the US Capitol Fred W. Beuttler Chapter 2. Historic Sites Andrew Jackson's Hermitage Reform and Religion at Andrew Jackson's Hermitage Marsha Mullin 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...
