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A Fiery Gospel : The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the Road to Righteous War /

Since its composition in Washington's Willard Hotel in 1861, Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" has been used to make America and its wars sacred. Few Americans reflect on its violent and redemptive imagery, drawn freely from prophetic passages of the Old and New Tes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gamble, Richard M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Colección:Religion and American public life (Cornell University Press)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Prologue
  • The besieged city
  • A rich crimson
  • "The glorious freedom of the gospel"
  • Righteous war and holy peace
  • The Anglo-American "battle hymn"
  • The valor of righteousness
  • The sacred inheritance of mankind
  • Exotic medley
  • A severed nation.