Righteous strife : how warring religious nationalists forged Lincoln's union / Richard Carwardine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carwardine, Richard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and politics--United States--History--19th century.

Religion and politics.

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

United States.

United States--Religion--19th century.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Religion.

Lincoln, Abraham.

United States--Politics and government--1861-1865.

Genre:

Biography.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 596 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations : 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

How warring religious nationalists forged Lincoln's union

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.

Summary:

"The first major account of the American Civil War to give full weight to the central role played by religion, reframing the conflict through Abraham Lincoln's contentious appeals to faith-based nationalism. How did slavery figure in God's plan? Was it the providential role of government to abolish this sin and build a righteous nation? Or did such a mission amount to "religious tyranny" and "pulpit politics," in an effort to strip the Southern states of their God-given rights? In 1861, in an already fracturing nation, the tensions surrounding this moral quandary cracked the United States in half, and even formed rifts within the North itself, where antislavery religious nationalists butted heads with conservative religious nationalists over their vision for America's future. At the center of this melee stood Abraham Lincoln, who would turn to his own faith for guidance, proclaiming more days of national fasting and thanksgiving than any other president before or since. These pauses for spiritual reflection provided the inspirational rhetoric and ideological fuel that sustained the war. In Righteous Strife, Richard Carwardine gives renewed attention to this crucible of contending religious nationalisms, out of which was forged emancipation, Lincoln's re-election, and his Second Inaugural Address. No understanding of the American Civil War is complete without accounting for this complex dance between church and state-one that continues to define our nation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Holding together : a righteous nation

Pulling apart : a fracturing nation

Fast day January 1861 : nationalist riptides

Lincoln, nationality, and providence

Lincoln's fast day and antislavery nationalism 1861

Lincoln, religious nationalists, and emancipation 1862

Conservative attack and Lincoln's rejoinder 1861-63

Lincoln in the tempest of religious nationalisms 1863-64

The election of 1864

Emancipation and providence.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book" --verso

Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-560) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Carwardine, Richard Righteous strife.

ISBN:

9781400044573

140004457X

OCLC:

1456760844

Publisher Number:

90101196946