Vale of tears
Subtitle: new essays on religion and Reconstruction
By: edited by Edward J. Blum and W. Scott Poole.
Contributors: Blum, Edward J.; Poole, W. Scott, 1971-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Macon, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780865549623; 9780865549876
Subjects: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Religion and politics -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Religion and politics -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Religion and sociology -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Southern States -- History -- 1865-1877; United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1877; Southern States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950; United States -- Religion -- 19th century; Southern States -- Religion -- 19th century; Southern States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1945
Description: Vale of Tears: New Essays in Religion and Reconstruction offers a window into the exciting work being done by historians, social scientists, and scholars of religious studies on the epoch of Reconstruction. A time of both peril and promise, Reconstruction in America became a cauldron of transformation and change. This collection argues that religion provided the idiom and symbol, as often the very substance, of those changes. The authors of this collection examine how African Americans and white Southerners, New England Abolitionists and former Confederate soldiers, Catholics and Protestants on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line brought their sense of the sacred into collaboration and conflict. Together, these essays mark an important new departure in a still-contested period of American history. Interdisciplinary in scope and content, it promises to challenge many of the traditional parameters of Reconstruction historiography. The range of contributors to the project, including Gaines Foster and Paul Harvey, will draw a great deal of attention from Southern historians, literary scholars, and scholars of American religion. --Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Parameters of promiscuity: Sexuality, violence, and religion in Upcountry South Carolina / Kimberly R. Kellison; title: Confederate apocalypse: theology and violence in the White Reconstruction South / W. Scott Poole; title: "One fold and one chief shepherd": The Sewanee Conference of 1883 and the beginnings of racial segregation in the Episcopal Church / Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr.; title: "That was about equalization after freedom": Southern Evangelicalism and the politics of Reconstruction and redemption, 1861-1900 / Paul Harvey; title: "O God of a godless land": Northern African American challenges to White Christian nationhood, 1865-1906 / Edward J. Blum; title: "With a sublime faith in God, and in Republican liberty" / Mark Wahlgren Summers; title: Why "redemption"?: Religion and the end of Reconstruction, 1869-1877 / Daniel W. Stowell; title: The end of slavery and the origins of the Bible Belt / Gaines M. Foster; title: "No disruption of union": The Catholic Church in the South and Reconstruction / David T. Gleeson; title: "Betwixt and between": Topographies of memory and identity in American Catholicism / Kent A. McConnell; title: "Pageantry of woe": The funeral of Ulysses S. Grant / Joan Waugh; title: (Re)producing White Supremacy: Race, the Protestant Church, and the American family in the works of Thomas Dixon, Jr. / Laura J. Veltman.