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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Computer File, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
George C Rable |
ISBN: | 9780807834268 0807834262 9781469621821 1469621827 9780807899311 0807899313 |
OCLC Number: | 607975631 |
Description: | 586 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | 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. |
Series Title: | Littlefield history of the Civil War era. |
Responsibility: | George C. Rable. |
Abstract:
Offers a groundbreaking account of how Americans of all political and religious persuasions used faith to interpret the course of the civil war. It underscores religion's presence in the everyday lives of Americans north and south struggling to understand the meaning of the conflict, from the tragedy of individual death to victory and defeat in battle and even the ultimate outcome of the war.
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