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

Contributor(s): Miller, Randall M | Stout, Harry S | Wilson, Charles Reagan
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998Description: xiii, 422 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0195121287 (acidfree paper); 0195121295 (pbk. : acid-free paper)Subject(s): United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Religious aspects -- CongressesDDC classification: 973.7/78 LOC classification: E468.9 | .R46 1998Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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