Houses divided : evangelical schisms and the crisis of the Union in Missouri / Lucas P. Volkman.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
Main Author: Volkman, Lucas P. (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Series:Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
Subjects:
Church controversies > Missouri.
Missouri > Church history > 19th century.
Missouri > History > Religious aspects. > Civil War, 1861-1865
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Religious aspects.
Church controversies.
Missouri.
1800-1899
Church history.
Genre:
Church history.
Physical Description:xviii, 306 pages ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.