Download or read book Gospel of Disunion written by Mitchell Snay and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The centrality of religion in the life of the Old South, the strongly religious nature of the sectional controversy over slavery, and the close affinity between religion and antebellum American nationalism all point toward the need to explore the role of religion in the development of southern sectionalism. In Gospel of Disunion Mitchell Snay examines the various ways in which religion adapted to and influenced the development of a distinctive southern culture and politics before the Civil War, adding depth and form to the movement that culminated in secession. From the abolitionist crisis of 1835 through the formation of the Confederacy in 1861, Snay shows how religion worked as an active agent in translating the sectional conflict into a struggle of the highest moral significance. At the same time, the slavery controversy sectionalized southern religion, creating separate institutions and driving theology further toward orthodoxy. By establishing a biblical sanction for slavery, developing a slaveholding ethic for Christian masters, and demonstrating the viability of separation from the North through the denominational schisms of the 1830s and 1840s, religion reinforced central elements in southern political culture and contributed to a moral consensus that made secession possible.

Download or read book God s Almost Chosen Peoples written by George C. Rable and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Examining a wide range of published and unpublished documents--including sermons, official statements from various churches, denominational papers and periodicals, and letters, diaries, and newspaper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.

Download or read book Minutes of the Annual Session written by Union County Baptist Association (S.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Inventory of the Church Archives of North Carolina Southern Baptist Convention Raleigh Association written by Historical Records Survey of North Carolina and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Minutes of the Forty eighth Annual Session of the Union Baptist Association Ala 1883 written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-10 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Download or read book Minutes of the Annual Session of the Louisiana Baptist State Convention written by Louisiana Baptist Convention and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 1438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Minutes of the Second Annual Session of the Colored Shiloh Baptist Association of Virginia written by Colored Shiloh Baptist Association of Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Minutes of the Annual Session of the Baptist General Association of Virginia written by Baptist General Association of Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Soldiers of the Cross written by Kent T. Dollar and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extremely well researched and unique in its approach, citing nine individual Confederate soldiers and the impact of the Civil War on their Christianity. These case studies, largely drawn from their own words in letters and diaries, give a personal and individual perspective that has largely been overlooked in other similar works.

Download or read book Minutes of the Illinois Baptist Pastoral Union Annual Meeting Baptist General Association of Illinois Annual Meeting written by Illinois Baptist Pastoral Union and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Minutes of the General Conference of the Congregational Churches in Maine at Their Annual Meeting written by General Conference of the Congregational Churches in Maine and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Minutes of the General Conference of Maine written by General Conference of Maine and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Minutes of the General Conference of the Congregational Churches in Maine and Maine Missionary Society written by Congregational Churches in Maine. General Conference and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journal of the Annual Session of the National Baptist Convention written by National Baptist Convention of the United States of America and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rebuilding Zion written by Daniel W. Stowell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both the North and the South viewed the Civil War in Christian terms. Each side believed that its fight was just, that God favored its cause. Rebuilding Zion is the first study to explore simultaneously the reaction of southern white evangelicals, northern white evangelicals, and Christian freedpeople to Confederate defeat. As white southerners struggled to assure themselves that the collapse of the Confederacy was not an indication of God's stern judgment, white northerners and freedpeople were certain that it was. Author Daniel W. Stowell tells the story of the religious reconstruction of the South following the war, a bitter contest between southern and northern evangelicals, at the heart of which was the fate of the freedpeople's souls and the southern effort to maintain a sense of sectional identity. Central to the southern churches' vision of the Civil War was the idea that God had not abandoned the South; defeat was a Father's stern chastisement. Secession and slavery had not been sinful; rather, it was the radicalism of the northern denominations that threatened the purity of the Gospel. Northern evangelicals, armed with a vastly different vision of the meaning of the war and their call to Christian duty, entered the post-war South intending to save white southerner and ex-slave alike. The freedpeople, however, drew their own providential meaning from the war and its outcome. The goal for blacks in the postwar period was to establish churches for themselves separate from the control of their former masters. Stowell plots the conflicts that resulted from these competing visions of the religious reconstruction of the South. By demonstrating how the southern vision eventually came to predominate over, but not eradicate, the northern and freedpeople's visions for the religious life of the South, he shows how the southern churches became one of the principal bulwarks of the New South, a region marked by intense piety and intense racism throughout the twentieth century.

Download or read book A Bibliography of Florida written by James Albert Servies and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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