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Houses Divided - Evangelical Schisms and the Crisis of the Union in Missouri (Hardcover)
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Houses Divided - Evangelical Schisms and the Crisis of the Union in Missouri (Hardcover)
Series: Religion in America
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Houses Divided provides new insights into the significance of the
nineteenth-century evangelical schisms that arose initially over
the moral question of African American bondage. Volkman examines
such fractures in the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches
of the slaveholding border state of Missouri. He maintains that
congregational and local denominational ruptures before, during,
and after the Civil War were central to the crisis of the Union in
that state from 1837 to 1876. The schisms were interlinked
religious, legal, constitutional, and political developments rife
with implications for the transformation of evangelicalism and the
United States from the late 1830s to the end of Reconstruction. The
evangelical disruptions in Missouri were grounded in divergent
moral and political understandings of slavery, abolitionism,
secession, and disloyalty. Publicly articulated by factional
litigation over church property and a combative evangelical print
culture, the schisms were complicated by the race, class, and
gender dynamics that marked the contending interests of white
middle-class women and men, rural church-goers, and African
American congregants. These ruptures forged antagonistic northern
and southern evangelical worldviews that increased antebellum
sectarian strife and violence, energized the notorious guerilla
conflict that gripped Missouri through the Civil War, and fueled
post-war vigilantism between opponents and proponents of
emancipation. The schisms produced the interrelated religious,
legal and constitutional controversies that shaped pro-and
anti-slavery evangelical contention before 1861, wartime Radical
rule, and the rise and fall of Reconstruction.
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