From Witchery to Sanctity: The Religious Vicissitudes of the Hawthornes

by Otto A. Bird, Katharine Bird

Overview

The remarkable history of the Hawthorne family, from its Puritan background through the skeptical, religiously tinged writings of one of America's greatest novelists, is told with vibrancy and color in From Witchery to Sanctity. The Birds show that religion, far more than other social qualities, shaped the outlook of the family's principles. Their religious thought dramatically affected, and was in turn itself affected by, the times in which they lived. From Puritanism, through Congregationalism and Unitarianism, and finally into Catholicism, the lives of the Hawthornes are woven by the Birds into a fabric that, in good part, tells the story of the founding and growth of the United States itself.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781587312526
Publisher:	St. Augustine's Press
Publication date:	07/30/2005
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

	The Hawthornes	vi
	Prologue	vii
Part 1	From Puritanism to Unitarianism
I	The Puritan Hawthornes	3
II	The Witch Trial Judge	19
III	The Puritan Relapse to Unitarianism	33
Part 2	Religion in the Writings of Hawthorne
IV	On Institutionalized Religion	43
V	On Sin and Consequences	58
VI	On Hawthorne's Position	103
Part 3	The Catholic Saint
	Portraits	112
VII	The Life and Achievement of Rose Hawthorne Lathrop: Mother Alphonsa	113
	Epilogue	144
	Bibliography	147
	Index	151