Damned nation
Subtitle: Hell in America from the Revolution to Reconstruction
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780199843114
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Damned nation?; title: Part one : Doctrine and dissemination.; title: "Salvation" vs. "damnation" : doctrinal controversies in the early republic; title: "His blood covers me!" : disseminating damnation in the Second Great Awakening; title: Part two : Adaptation and dissent.; title: "Oh, deliver me from being contentedly guilty" : laypeople and the fear of hell; title: "Ideas, opinions, can not damn the soul" : antebellum dissent against damnation; title: Part three : Deployment and denouement.; title: "Slavery destroys immortal souls" : deployment of damnation in the slavery controversy; title: "Our men die well" : damnation, death, and the Civil War; title: Epilogue