A Visitation of God

Northern Civilians Interpret the Civil War

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

AvSean A. Scott

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This book examines the Civil War from the perspective of the northern laity, those religious civilians whose personal faith influenced their views on politics and slavery, helped them cope with physical separation and death engendered by the war, and ultimately enabled them to discern the hand of God in the struggle to preserve the national Union. From Lincoln's election to his assassination, the book weaves together political, military, social, and intellectual history into a religious narrative of the Civil War on the northern home front. Packed with compelling human interest stories, this account draws on letters, diaries, newspapers and church records along with published sources to conclusively demonstrate that many devout civilians regarded the Civil War as a contest imbued with religious meaning. In the process of giving their loyal support to the government as individual citizens, religious Northerners politicized the church as a collective institution and used it to uphold the Union so the purified nation could promote Christianity around the world. Christian patriotism helped win the war, but the politicization of religion did not lead to the redemption of the state.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-01-31
Mått229 x 150 x 22 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor360
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780199945085

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Introduction ; Chapter 1. "If God Saves Not Our Country It Must Be Lost" ; Providence, Secession, and the Outbreak of War ; Chapter 2. "Until the Great Sin ... Has Been Removed" ; God's Chastening, the Sacred Union, and Emancipation ; Chapter 3. "Try to Live the Life of a Christian" ; The Personal Faith of Women on the Home Front ; Chapter 4. "Christian Patriotism" in Flush ; Political Preaching, Antiwar Dissent, and Summer Thanksgiving ; Chapter 5. "Exhorting You to Be Faithful to God and to Men" ; Fatherly Counsel and the Path to Christian Manhood ; Chapter 6. "Discord Sown among Brethren" ; Church Division and Bible Appropriation ; Chapter 7. "Earth Has No Sorrow That Heaven Cannot Cure" ; Civilian Perspectives on Death and Eternity ; Chapter 8. "God Be Thanked the Nation and Humanity Were Saved" ; Retribution against Traitors, the Reelection of Lincoln, and the Termination of War ; Chapter 9. "How Mysterious Are the Ways of Providence" ; Civilian Attitudes toward the Assassination of Lincoln ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

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