Religion and the American Civil WarRandall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, Charles Reagan Wilson The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American Civil War. The authors show that religion, understood in its broadest context as a culture and community of faith, was found wherever the war was found. Comprising essays by such scholars as Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Drew Gilpin Faust, Mark Noll, Reid Mitchell, Harry Stout, and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, and featuring an afterword by James McPherson, this collection marks the first step towards uncovering this crucial yet neglected aspect of American history. |
Contents
The Bible and Slavery | |
Religion in the Collapse of the American Union | |
Church Honor and Secession | |
The Northern Protestant Clergy and | |
White Southern Baptist | |
DANIEL W STOWELL | |
Religious Imagination of Women Writers | |
Elite Women and Religion in | |
Catholic Religion Irish Ethnicity and the Civil | |
Perfecting the Confederacy | |
The Case | |
Religion and the Results of the Civil | |
Religion and the American Civil War in Comparative Perspective | |
Afterword | |
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