[Rezension von: Matsui, John H., 1981-, Millenarian dreams and racial nightmares]
The study of religion during the Civil War era has flourished over the last two decades as numerous scholars have demonstrated that soldiers, civilians, and African Americans understood the war through worldviews permeated with biblical principles and theological underpinnings. Of course, prominent...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2022
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2022, Volume: 64, Issue: 2, Pages: 356-358 |
| Review of: | Millenarian dreams and racial nightmares (Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2021) (Scott, Sean A.)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Racism
/ Protestantism
/ Civil war
/ USA
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBQ North America KDD Protestant Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | The study of religion during the Civil War era has flourished over the last two decades as numerous scholars have demonstrated that soldiers, civilians, and African Americans understood the war through worldviews permeated with biblical principles and theological underpinnings. Of course, prominent contemporaries emphasized the apocalyptic nature of the struggle to preserve the Union by destroying slavery. Julia Ward Howe envisioned "the glory of the coming of the Lord," and Frederick Douglass depicted emancipation as the outworking of God’s will in history to achieve divine justice and bring about millennial conditions. Historians too have explored this eschatological angle, perhaps most capably over four decades ago when James Moorhead’s American Apocalypse (1978) documented how numerous northern clergymen related the cataclysmic events of the Civil War and Reconstruction to their postmillennial eschatology. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csac016 |