Religion and the American Civil War

by Miller, Randall M.; Stout, Harry S.; Wilson, Charles Reagan

• ISBN13: 9780195121292
• ISBN10: 0195121295
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-11-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American Civil War.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

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 3
Overview
Religion and the American Civil War	p. 21
Ideas
The Bible and Slavery	p. 43
Religion in the Collapse of the American Union	p. 74
Church, Honor, and Secession	p. 89
The Coming of the Lord: The Northern Protestant Clergy and the Civil War Crisis	p. 110
"Wholesome Reading Purifies and Elevates the Man": The Religious Military Press in the Confederacy	p. 131
"Yankee Faith" and Southern Redemption: White Southern Baptist Ministers, 1850-1890	p. 167
Stonewall Jackson and the Providence of God	p. 187
Lincoln's Sermon on the Mount: The Second Inaugural	p. 208
People
Days of Judgment, Days of Wrath: The Civil War and the Religious Imagination of Women Writers	p. 229
"Without Pilot or Compass": Elite Women and Religion in the Civil War South	p. 250
Catholic Religion, Irish Ethnicity, and the Civil War	p. 261
Christian Soldiers?: Perfecting the Confederacy	p. 297
Places
Civil War, Religion, and Communications: The Case of Richmond	p. 313
Religion and the Results of the Civil War	p. 360
Comparisons
Religion and the American Civil War in Comparative Perspective	p. 385
Afterword	p. 408
Index	p. 413
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