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A Kingdom Divided - Evangelicals, Loyalty, and Sectionalism in the Civil War Era (Hardcover)
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A Kingdom Divided - Evangelicals, Loyalty, and Sectionalism in the Civil War Era (Hardcover)
Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
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A Kingdom Divided uncovers how evangelical Christians in the border
states influenced debates about slavery, morality, and politics
from the 1830s to the 1890s. Using little-studied events and
surprising incidents from the region, April E. Holm argues that
evangelicals on the border powerfully shaped the regional structure
of American religion in the Civil War era. In the decades before
the Civil War, the three largest evangelical denominations diverged
sharply over the sinfulness of slavery. This division generated
tremendous local conflict in the border region, where individual
churches had to define themselves as being either northern or
southern. In response, many border evangelicals drew upon the
""doctrine of spirituality,"" which dictated that churches should
abstain from all political debate. Proponents of this doctrine
defined slavery as a purely political issue, rather than a moral
one, and the wartime arrival of secular authorities who demanded
loyalty to the Union only intensified this commitment to
""spirituality."" Holm contends that these churches' insistence
that politics and religion were separate spheres was instrumental
in the development of the ideal of the nonpolitical southern
church. After the Civil War, southern churches adopted both the
disaffected churches from border states and their doctrine of
spirituality, claiming it as their own and using it to supply a
theological basis for remaining divided after the abolition of
slavery. By the late nineteenth century, evangelicals were more
sectionally divided than they had been at war's end. In A Kingdom
Divided, Holm provides the first analysis of the crucial role of
churches in border states in shaping antebellum divisions in the
major evangelical denominations, in navigating the relationship
between church and the federal government, and in rewriting
denominational histories to forestall reunion in the churches.
Offering a new perspective on nineteenth-century sectionalism, it
highlights how religion, morality, and politics interacted, often
in unexpected ways, in a time of political crisis and war.
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