Religion and the American Civil War / edited by Randall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, Charles Reagan Wilson ; with afterword by James M. McPherson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Randall M.

Stout, Harry S.

Wilson, Charles Reagan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Religious aspects--Congresses.

United States.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiii, 422 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Summary:

The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American Civil War.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 Galpin 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:

Religion and the American Civil War / Phillip Shaw Paludan

The Bible and slavery / Mark A. Noll

Religion in the collapse of the American union / Eugene D. Genovese

Church, honor, and secession / Bertram Wyatt-Brown

The coming of the Lord : the Northern Protestant clergy and the Civil War crisis / George M. Fredrickson

"Wholesome reading purifies and elevates the man " : the religious military press in the Confederacy / Kurt O. Berends

"Yankee faith" and Southern redemption : white Southern Baptist ministers, 1850-1890 / Paul Harvey

Stonewall Jackson and the providence of God / Daniel W. Stowell

Lincoln's sermon on the mount : the Second Inaugural / Ronald C. White, Jr.

Days of judgment, days of wrath : the Civil War and the religious imagination of women writers / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

"Without pilot or compass" : elite women and religion in the Civil War South / Drew Gilpin Faust

Catholic religion, Irish ethnicity, and the Civil War / Randall M. Miller

Christian soldiers? : Perfecting the Confederacy / Reid Mitchell

Civil War, religion, and communications : the case of Richmond / Harry S. Stout and Christopher Grasso

Religion and the results of the Civil War / Samuel S. Hill

Religion and the American Civil War in comparative perspective / Charles Reagan Wilson.

Notes:

Essays presented at a symposium held at the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Oct. 1994.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0195121287

0195121295

OCLC:

38096886