Author: Baptist Convention of the State of Michigan
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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Author: George C. Rable
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807899313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 599

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Throughout the Civil War, soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict saw the hand of God in the terrible events of the day, but the standard narratives of the period pay scant attention to religion. Now, in God's Almost Chosen Peoples, Lincoln Prize-winning historian George C. Rable offers a groundbreaking account of how Americans of all political and religious persuasions used faith to interpret the course of the war. Examining a wide range of published and unpublished documents--including sermons, official statements from various churches, denominational papers and periodicals, and letters, diaries, and newspaper articles--Rable illuminates the broad role of religion during the Civil War, giving attention to often-neglected groups such as Mormons, Catholics, blacks, and people from the Trans-Mississippi region. The book underscores religion's presence in the everyday lives of Americans north and south struggling to understand the meaning of the conflict, from the tragedy of individual death to victory and defeat in battle and even the ultimate outcome of the war. Rable shows that themes of providence, sin, and judgment pervaded both public and private writings about the conflict. Perhaps most important, this volume--the only comprehensive religious history of the war--highlights the resilience of religious faith in the face of political and military storms the likes of which Americans had never before endured.

Author: T. Michael Parrish
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1132

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Author: Women's Baptist Home Mission Society
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Languages : en
Pages : 564

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Author: Baptist State Convention of North Carolina
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: Mitchell Snay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521431224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Gospel of Disunion examines the ways in which religion influenced the development of a distinctive Southern culture and politics before the Civil War, translating the secessionist movement into a struggle of the highest moral significance. It explores such topics as the religious pro-slavery argument and the slaveholding ethic for Christian masters, the denominational schisms of the 1830s and 1840s that divided Southern Protestants along sectional lines, and the distinctive religious rationale for secession. This book is the first major attempt to fully explore the relationship between religion and the origins of Southern nationalism in all these manifestations.

Author: Louisiana Baptist Convention
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 1438

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Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810818415
Category : Imprints (Publishers' and printers' statements)
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Author: Samuel C. Hyde, Jr.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807158585
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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Author: Historical Records Survey of North Carolina
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Category : Baptist associations
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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