caa a22 4500 386357102 CHVBK 20180307111858.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3167677 doi S0009640700075132 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/3167677 Schmidt Leigh Eric assistant professor of religious studies in the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. "A Church-going People are a Dress-loving People”: Clothes, Communication, and Religious Culture in Early America [Elektronische Daten] [Leigh Eric Schmidt] When the early nineteenth-century pastor William Henry Foote reflected upon the eighteenth-century Christians who were his forebears in North Carolina and Virginia, he paused at one point to make an observation about the clothes they wore. "A church-going people are a dress-loving people”, he said; "The sanctity and decorum of the house of God are inseparably associated with a decent exterior; and the spiritual, heavenly exercises of the inner man are incompatible with a defiled and tattered, or slovenly mein. All regular Christian assemblies cultivate a taste for dress, and none more so than the hardy pioneer settlers of Upper Carolina, and the valley and mountains of Virginia” As they readied themselves for worship, Foote elaborated, the faithful "put on their best and carefully preserved dress” in preparation for "their approach to the King of Kings”. Copyright © American Society of Church History 1989 Church History Cambridge University Press 58/1(1989-03), 36-51 0009-6407 58:1<36 1989 58 CHH https://doi.org/10.2307/3167677 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3167677 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Schmidt Leigh Eric assistant professor of religious studies in the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Church History Cambridge University Press 58/1(1989-03), 36-51 0009-6407 58:1<36 1989 58 CHH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge