Media, Materiality, Protestants, Relics, Mourning, American Religious History, Jamie L. Brummitt, Civil War, Bibles, Objects, Needlework, Postmortem images, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Death, George Washington, Mount Vernon

Research

Research

Read more about my next books projects on George Washington’s relics at Mount Vernon and Bibles in the American Civil war, including an essay on “bad” Bibles published in Material Religion (May 2022).

Unidentified photographer, “Postmortem Portrait of an Infant,” unknown city, c. 1855. Daguerreotype in case; sixth plate. Image from Getty’s Open Content Program, 84.XT.1582.7.

Protestant Relics in Early America

Learn more about my book Protestant Relics in Early America (Oxford University Press, 2025), the first systematic examination of Protestant relic practices in colonial America and the United States.

Jamie L. Brummitt, scholar of American religious history.

Academia.edu

View my recent academic publications at Academia.edu, including the open-access essay “The Material Study of American Protestantism,” published in Religion Compass (2022).