Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830-1880

Informationen zum Autor Luke E. Harlow is Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His published work has appeared in Slavery and Abolition, Ohio Valley History and the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. He is the co-editor of Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the Present. Klappentext This book places religious debates about slavery at the centre of American political culture before, during and after the Civil War. Zusammenfassung This book sheds new light on the role of religion in the nineteenth-century slavery debates. Luke E. Harlow argues that the ongoing conflict over the meaning of Christian 'orthodoxy' constrained the political and cultural horizons available for defenders and opponents of American slavery. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The challenge of immediate emancipationism: the origins of abolitionist heresy, 1829-35; 2. Heresy and schism: the uneasy gradualist-proslavery ecclesiastical alliance, 1836-45; 3. The limits of Christian conservative antislavery: white supremacy and the failure of emancipationism, 1845-59; 4. The abolitionist threat: religious orthodoxy and proslavery unionism on the eve of civil war, 1859-61; 5. Competing visions of political theology: Kentucky Presbyterianism's civil war, 1861-2; 6. The end of neutrality: emancipation, political religion, and the triumph of abolitionist heterodoxy, 1862-5; 7. Kentucky's redemption: confederate religion and white democratic domination, 1865-74; Epilogue: the antebellum past for the postwar future.

Product details

• Authors: Luke E Harlow, Luke E. Harlow, Luke E. (University of Tennessee Harlow
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.04.2016
• EAN: 9781316620649
• ISBN: 978-1-316-62064-9
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South; Cambridge Studies on the Ameri; Cambridge Studies on the American South
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, Religion: general, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of the Americas