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Civil WarRandall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, Charles Reagan Wilson The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American Civil War.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. |
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... northern and southern “branches” of the Presbyterian church in 1983, after more than a century of sectional division caused by differences over theology and social conscience, especially the issue of slavery. Louisville itself was both ...
... northern and southern “branches” of the Presbyterian church in 1983, after more than a century of sectional division caused by differences over theology and social conscience, especially the issue of slavery. Louisville itself was both ...
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... Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union (1965), The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on AfroAmerican Character and Destiny, 1817–1914 (1971), White Supremacy: A Study in American and South African History (1981), and ...
... Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union (1965), The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on AfroAmerican Character and Destiny, 1817–1914 (1971), White Supremacy: A Study in American and South African History (1981), and ...
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... northern ministers urged the Union to convert a war for a political objective into one for a moral one. African Americans had claimed such a moral cause as their own from the start, and knew that one day God would deliver them from ...
... northern ministers urged the Union to convert a war for a political objective into one for a moral one. African Americans had claimed such a moral cause as their own from the start, and knew that one day God would deliver them from ...
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... northern Protestantism was an emphasis on individual salvation that also demanded individual responsibility for the social order. The early Puritan idea of a covenanted society between a human community and the Almighty survived in ...
... northern Protestantism was an emphasis on individual salvation that also demanded individual responsibility for the social order. The early Puritan idea of a covenanted society between a human community and the Almighty survived in ...
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... northern borderstate Reformed churches offered alternative modes of understanding the Scriptures, but none of them had the cultural authority to challenge effectively the dominant American way of theology grounded in literalistic ...
... northern borderstate Reformed churches offered alternative modes of understanding the Scriptures, but none of them had the cultural authority to challenge effectively the dominant American way of theology grounded in literalistic ...
Contents
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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