Author:
Gin Lum, Kathryn.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Descriptionxiii, 310 pages : ill. ; 25 cm
Note:"Salvation" vs. "damnation" : doctrinal controversies in the early republic -- "His blood covers me!" : disseminating damnation in the second Great Awakening -- "Oh, deliver me from being contentedly guilty" : laypeople and the fear of hell -- "Ideas, opinions, can not damn the soul" : antebellum dissent against damnation -- "Slavery destroys immortal souls" : deployment of damnation in the slavery controversy -- "Our men die well" : damnation, death, and the Civil War.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
