Houses divided : evangelical schisms and the crisis of the Union in Missouri /
Volkman, Lucas P.,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Geography of contention: frontier dynamics of religious strife -- 2. Turmoils and temporalities: white women's benevolence, the slavery question, and church property disputes to 1860 -- 3. Church property litigation, liberty of conscience, and the ordeal of African Methodists in St. Louis: Farrar v. Finney -- 4. Printed religion, the public sphere, and the disordering of the Union -- 5. Sundered flocks, militant godliness, and the woes of embattled churchgoers during the Civil War -- 6. Wartime trials and tribulations: emancipation, disloyal believers, and the hard birth of a new Civil religion -- 7. Reconstruction: righteous rulers and the unrepentant -- 8. Ecclesiastical standoffs, freed people, and the rigors of redemption.
Church controversies
Church controversies.