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

Contributor Miller, Randall M.

Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Descriptionxiii, 422 p. ; 24 cm.

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

Note: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 / PaulHarvey -- 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, 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 -- Afterword / James M. McPherson.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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