Introduction: In Search of Ancestors 1 Children of the Religious Enlightenment Parents How Children Reinterpreted Their Parents' Values Getting Married, Raising Families Descendants 2 Conversations about Interfaith Marriage Official Opinions Moral Tales Newspaper Romances 3 The Strange Intimacy of Piety and Politics Washington Courtships Converts and Their Husbands Interfaith Families and Their Church A Failed Marriage The Rabbi's Daughter 4 The Uncertain Limits of Liberalism "Can the Ethiopian Change His Skin or the Leopard His Spots?" Rules and Exceptions Immigrant Autobiographies Interfaith Marriage Moves to an Inside Page 5 Fitting Religion into Complicated Lives A New Kind of Wife One's Own Way to Heaven A Taste for Misbehavior Family Ties A World Turned Upside Down? Epilogue: The Discovery of Interfaith Marriage Appendix The Interfaith Couples Studied, Listed in Chronological Order by Wedding Date Genealogy of the Sherman Family Genealogy of the Mordecai Family Abbreviations Used in the Notes Notes Index Illustrations 1. William Tecumseh Sherman and His Son Tom 2. Mordecai House, Raleigh, North Carolina 3. Catholic Dispensation Form, Vincennes, Indiana, 1888 4. Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, Burial Place of Judah Benjamin 5. Plum Street Temple, Cincinnati, Ohio 6. Ralph Barton Perry and Rachel Berenson Perry 7. Bessie McCoy Davis, 1911
Anne Rose is Associate Professor of History and Religious Studies, Pennsylvania State University.
Heavily documented with over 70 pages of footnotes and family trees, Rose's analysis stays closer to thoughts and feelings, rarely straying into what she terms 'quantifiable trends,' a thing one sometimes wishes for as a point of comparison. While the vision is limited to the elite sector of society, it still makes an interesting read for American studies and religion collections. Library Journal 20010801 [T]his book is sure to find a sizable audience outside the academy. Not only did Rose hit upon a topic that will interest thousands of Americans, she has told the story of 19th-century intermarriage in crisp prose so accessible that Harvard ought to pass out copies to other scholars hoping to break out of the ivory tower. Publishers Weekly 20010730 This is a pioneering, eye-opening cultural history focused on American interfaith families begun by marriages celebrated between the War of 1812 and WWI. Rose examines 26 interfaith couples in 18 extended families, making available to readers a rich array of archival material, as well as memoirs and family histories. The result is a deeply contextualized, moving narrative tracing the contours of religious and social change during the pivotal century in which America became a "religiously diverse nation"...Rose shows readers the many complex ways in which "interfaith families helped change American religion," and she has bequeathed to future historians a whole array of new questions raised by this gracefully written, provocative, scholarly volume. -- D. Campbell Choice 20020401
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