Lucas Volkman

Houses Divided

Evangelical Schisms and the Crisis of the Union in Missouri

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the slaveholding border state of Missouri, Houses Divided shows that congregational and local denominational schisms, which arose initially over the moral question of African-American bondage, played a central role in sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction.

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Produktdetails

• Religion in America
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9780190248321
• ISBN-10: 0190248327
• Artikelnr.: 48813528

Autorenporträt

Lucas P. Volkman completed his PhD at the University of Missouri in 2012. He is currently an Associate Professor of History at Moberly Area Community College.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter 1: Geography of Contention: Frontier Dynamics of Religious
Strife
* Chapter 2: Turmoils and Temporalities: White Women's Benevolence, the
Slavery Question and Church Property Disputes to 1860
* Chapter 3: Church Property Litigation, Liberty of Conscience, and the
Ordeal of African Methodists in St. Louis: Farrar V. Finney
* Chapter 4: Printed Religion, the Public Sphere, and the Disordering
of the Union
* Chapter 5: Sundered Flocks, Militant Godliness, and the Woes of
Embattled Church-Goers during the Civil War
* Chapter 6: Wartime Trials and Tribulations: Emancipation, Disloyal
Believers and the Hard Birth of a New Civil Religion
* Chapter 7: Reconstruction: Righteous Rulers and the Unrepentant
* Chapter 8: Ecclesiastical Standoffs, Freed People, and the Rigors of
Redemption
* Epilogue