The 16 essays in this volume address the question of the role played by religion in the American Civil War. The authors show that religion, understood in its broadest context, as a culture and community of faith, was found wherever the war was found. Comprising essays by such scholars as Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Drew Galpin Faust, Mark Noll, Reid Mitchell, Harry Stout, and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, and featuring an afterword by James McPherson, this collection uncovers much of this neglected aspect of American history.; This book is intended for students and scholars of American religion and American history.

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

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 / Paul Harvey -- 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 and 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.

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