Mitchell Snay

Gospel of Disunion

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the ways in which religion influenced the development of a distinctive Southern culture and politics before the Civil War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780521431224
• ISBN-10: 0521431220
• Artikelnr.: 35451759

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Religion and the search for Southern distinctiveness; Part I.
Religion and Sectional Politics: 1. The abolitionist crisis of 1835: the
issues defined; Part II. Religion and Slavery: 2. Slavery defended: the
morality of slavery and the infidelity of abolitionism; 3. Slavery
sanctified: the slaveholding ethic and the religious mission to the slaves;
Part III. Religion and Separatism: 4. Harbingers of disunion: the
denominational schisms, 5. The religious logic of secession; 6. Religion
and the formation of a Southern nationalism and the coming of the Civil
War.