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Zusatztext [T]his work represents a crucial local piece to the national puzzle of how religious conflict featured in the sectional conflict. It contains a trove of state-level church-state conundrums that Volkman deftly unpacks. And it closes with an intriguing claim that white evangelical Missourians rejected prohibition in the late-19th century due to the lingering abolitionist taint on moral politics. Altogether, Volkman shows that, for some Americans, lasting sectional allegiances took shape within houses of worship-and they ventured out of them with a righteous vengeance. Informationen zum Autor Lucas P. Volkman completed his PhD at the University of Missouri in 2012. He is currently an Associate Professor of History at Moberly Area Community College. Klappentext Focusing on the slaveholding border state of Missouri, Houses Divided shows that congregational and local denominational schisms, which arose initially over the moral question of African-American bondage, played a central role in sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction. Zusammenfassung Focusing on the slaveholding border state of Missouri, Houses Divided shows that congregational and local denominational schisms, which arose initially over the moral question of African-American bondage, played a central role in sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
