Louis Nelson Publications

books

The Beauty of Holiness: Anglicanism and Architecture in Colonial South Carolina
2009

articles

"The Diversity of Countries: Anglican Architecture in Virginia, South Carolina, and Jamaica"
in Material Culture in Anglo-America: Regional Identity and Urbanity in the Tidewater, Lowcountry, and Caribbean
David Shields, ed.
University of South Carolina Press, 2009

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
Winner of the SESAH "Best Article of the Year"

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