God's Almost Chosen Peoples : A Religious History of the American Civil War /

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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 o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rable, George C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
War > Religious aspects.
Religion.
HISTORY > Study & Teaching.
HISTORY.
United States.
États-Unis > Religion > 19e siecle.
United States > Religion > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Religious aspects.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Crises of faith
  • Reaping the whirlwind
  • Holy war
  • Fighting for God and country
  • Temptations of the camp
  • The shepherds and their sheep
  • Christian soldiers
  • The God of battles
  • Carnage
  • War's purpose
  • The Lord's work
  • Testing faith
  • Declension
  • Wrath
  • Jubilo
  • Armies of the Lord
  • War comes to the churches
  • Citizens, saints, and soldiers
  • Thanksgiving and desperation
  • The final decrees of providence.

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