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American Apocalypse : Yankee Protestants and the Civil War 1860-1869
Overview
Especially in times of war Americans have claimed for their nation a unique world mission, often defining it in religious terms. James Moorhead analyzes a crucial episode of this patriotic piety through the behavior of four major Northern Protestant denominations in the 1860s. After examining the antebellum origins of the concept of America as a redeemer nation, he investigates the churches' use of familiar dogmas -- principally that of millennialism -- to interpret the experience of Civil War and Reconstruction.
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- ISBN-13: 9780300021523
- ISBN-10: 0300021526
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publish Date: March 1978
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.81 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.15 pounds
- Page Count: 278
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