Books and Religious Devotion
Author: Westphall, Allan F.
ISBN: 9780271064048
RM664.82
Publisher,Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
Publication Date,
Format, Hardcover
Weight,
No. of Pages, 228
Examines the book collection of Thomas Connary, a nineteenth-century Irish Catholic New England farmer, to reconstruct how Connary read and annotated his books. Reveals how books can structure a life of devotion and social participation, and presents anauthentic, holistic view of one reader's interior life--Provided by publisher.
