Louis Nelson Publications

articles

Anglican Church Building and Local Context in Early Jamaica in Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture X University of Tennessee Press, 2006

Building Confessions: Architecture and Meaning in Nineteenth-Century Places of Worship
in Sacred Spaces: Building and Remembering Sites of Worship in the Nineteenth Century
Virginia Raguin, ed.
Holy Cross, 2002

Building Crosswise: reconstructing Jamaica's early Anglican churches in Jamaica Historical Review: Material Culture Edition Institute of Jamaica, 2003

Sensing the Sacred: Anglican Architecture and Material Religion in Early South Carolina in Winterhur Portfolio University of Chicago Press, Fall 2007

book manuscripts

Pulpits, Piety, and Power: Anglican architecture and material culture in colonial South Carolina
Forthcoming

definition

"Architecture and Revivals"
in Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in America
Scribners, Forthcoming

Vernacular Architecture
in The Encyclopedia of the New Nation
Paul Finkelman, ed.
Scribners, 2006

edited volume

American Sanctuary: Understanding Sacred Spaces Louis Nelson, ed. University of Indiana Press, 2006

essays

“Architecture as Artifact: Period Rooms in the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts,”
in The Magazine Antiques
January 2007

journals

Buildings and Landscapes: journal of the vernacular architecture forum Louis Nelson and Howard Davis, ed. University of Minnesotta Press, 2006-2009

review essays

Rediscovering American Sacred Spaces
in Religious Studies Review
University of Chicago Press, 2004