Rebuilding Zion : the religious reconstruction of the South, 1863-1877
Daniel W. Stowell (Author)
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
Electronic books
viii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780195101942, 0195101944
36648906
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