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American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War 1860-1869

American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War 1860-1869

Hardcover

Civil War Period (1850-1877)General Christianity

ISBN10: 0300021526
ISBN13: 9780300021523
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Mar 1 1978
Pages: 278
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Especially in times of war Americans have claimed for their nation a unique world mission, often defining it in religious terms. James Moorhead analyzes a crucial episode of this patriotic piety through the behavior of four major Northern Protestant denominations in the 1860s. After examining the antebellum origins of the concept of America as a redeemer nation, he investigates the churches' use of familiar dogmas -- principally that of millennialism -- to interpret the experience of Civil War and Reconstruction.

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