Lucas Volkman

Houses Divided (eBook, ePUB)

Evangelical Schisms and the Crisis of the Union in Missouri

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190865733
• Artikelnr.: 50832231

Autorenporträt

Lucas Volkman completed his PhD at the University of Missouri in 2012. He is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Moberly Area Community College.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter 1: Geography of Contention: Frontier Dynamics of Religious
Strife
* Chapter 2: Turmoils and Temporalities: White Women's Benevolence, the
Slavery Question and Church Property Disputes to 1860
* Chapter 3: Church Property Litigation, Liberty of Conscience, and the
Ordeal of African Methodists in St. Louis: Farrar V. Finney
* Chapter 4: Printed Religion, the Public Sphere, and the Disordering
of the Union
* Chapter 5: Sundered Flocks, Militant Godliness, and the Woes of
Embattled Church-Goers during the Civil War
* Chapter 6: Wartime Trials and Tribulations: Emancipation, Disloyal
Believers and the Hard Birth of a New Civil Religion
* Chapter 7: Reconstruction: Righteous Rulers and the Unrepentant
* Chapter 8: Ecclesiastical Standoffs, Freed People, and the Rigors of
Redemption
* Epilogue