Vale of Tears : New Essays on Religion and Reconstruction

by Blum, Edward J.

• ISBN13: 9780865549876
• ISBN10: 0865549877
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-30
• Publisher: Mercer Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Charles Reagan Wilson
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(14)
W. Scott Poole
Edward J. Blum
Part I Sanctifying Southern Violence and Segregation
Parameters of Promiscuity: Sexuality, Violence, and Religion in Upcountry South Carolina	15	(21)
Kimberly R. Kellison
Confederate Apocalypse: Theology and Violence in the White Reconstruction South	36	(17)
W. Scott Poole
``One Fold and One Chief Shepherd'': The Sewanee Conference of 1883 and the Beginnings of Racial Segregation in the Episcopal Church	53	(20)
Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr.
Part II Religion and African American Resistance to White Supremacy
``That Was about Equalization after Freedom'': Southern Evangelicalism and the Politics of Reconstruction and Redemption, 1861--1900	73	(20)
Paul Harvey
``O God of a Godless Land'': Northern African American Challenges to White Christian Nationhood, 1865--1906	93	(19)
Edward J. Blum
Part III Religious Rhetoric, Politics, and Moral Reform
``With a Sublime Faith in God, and in Republican Liberty''	112	(21)
Mark Wahlgren Summers
Why ``Redemption''?: Religion and the End of Reconstruction, 1869--1877	133	(14)
Daniel W. Stowell
The End of Slavery and the Origins of the Bible Belt	147	(17)
Gaines M. Foster
Part IV Reconstructing Catholicism
``No Disruption of Union'': The Catholic Church in the South and Reconstruction	164	(23)
David T. Gleeson
``Betwixt and Between'': Topographies of Memory and Identity in American Catholicism	187	(25)
Kent A. McConnell
Part V Religion and the Cultures of Reconstruction
``Pageantry of Woe'': The Funeral of Ulysses S. Grant	212	(23)
Joan Waugh
(Re)producing White Supremacy: Race, the Protestant Church, and the American Family in the Works of Thomas Dixon, Jr.	235	(22)
Laura J. Veltman
List of Contributors	257	(2)
Index	259