Rebuilding Zion
Subtitle: The Religious Reconstruction of the South, 1863-1877
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 27, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780195149814
First sentence: The experience of the Civil War shook the foundations of southern religious life between 1863 and 1865.
Notes: Originally published: 1998.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Stonewall Jackson and the providence of God; title: God's wrath: disruption, destruction, and confusion in southern religious life; title: God's chastisement: the Confederate understanding of the Civil War; title: God's judgment: the northern understanding of the Civil War; title: God's deliverance: the freedpeople's understanding of the Civil War; title: Crossing Jordan: the Black quest for religious autonomy; title: Southern churches resurgent: denominational structures and religious newspapers; title: Educating Confederate Christians: Sunday schools and denominational colleges; title: "A pure and loyal gospel": Northern missionary efforts in the South; title: Voting the Bible: religion and politics in the reconstruction South; title: One nation under God? Efforts toward sectional reunion; title: The shape of religious reconstruction