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" Rebuilding Zion : "
Daniel W. Stowell.
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BL
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623615
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| Main Entry
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Stowell, Daniel W.
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Rebuilding Zion : : the religious reconstruction of the South, 1863-1877 /\ Daniel W. Stowell.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1998.
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viii, 278 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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0195101944 (alk. paper)
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: 9780195101942 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-267) and index.
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| Contents
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Stonewall Jackson and the providence of God -- God's wrath; disruption, destruction, and confusion in Southern religious life -- God's chastisement; the Confederate understanding of Civil War -- God's judgment; the Northern understanding of the Civil War -- God's deliverance; the freedpeople's understanding of the Civil War -- Crossing Jordan; the Black quest for religious autonomy -- Southern churches resurgent; denominational structures and religious newspapers -- Educating Confederate Christians; Sunday schools and denominational colleges -- "A pure and loyal gospel"; Northern missionary efforts in the South -- Voting the Bible; religion and politics in the Reconstruction South -- One nation under God? Efforts toward sectional reunion -- The shape of religious reconstruction.
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| Abstract
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Rebuilding Zion is the first study to explore simultaneously the reaction of southern white evangelicals, northern white evangelicals, and Christian freedpeople to Confederate defeat. As white southerners struggled to assure themselves that the collapse of the Confederacy was not an indication of God's stern judgment, white northerners and freedpeople were certain that it was. Author Daniel W. Stowell tells the story of the religious reconstruction of the South following the war, a bitter contest between southern and northern evangelicals, at the heart of which was the fate of the freed-people's souls and the southern effort to maintain a sense of sectional identity.
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Stowell plots the conflicts that resulted from these competing visions of the religious reconstruction of the South. By demonstrating how the southern vision eventually came to predominate over, but not eradicate, the northern and freedpeople's visions for the religious life of the South, he shows how the southern churches became one of the principal bulwarks of the New South, a region marked by intense piety and intense racism throughout the twentieth century.
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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Southern States, Church history, 19th century.
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United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Religious aspects, Protestant churches.
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BR535.S76 1998
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