American crusade: Christianity, warfare, and national identity, 1860-1920

When is a war a holy crusade? And when does theology cause Christians to condemn violence? In American Crusade, Benjamin Wetzel argues that the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I shared a cultural meaning for white Protestant ministers in the United States, who considered each conf...

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Main Author: Wetzel, Benjamin J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2022]
In:Year: 2022
Reviews:[Rezension von: Wetzel, Benjamin J., American crusade : Christianity, warfare, and national identity, 1860-1920] (2023) (Batlan, Katharine)
[Rezension von: Wetzel, Benjamin J., American crusade : Christianity, warfare, and national identity, 1860-1920] (2023) (Sizer, Aaron)
[Rezension von: Wetzel, Benjamin J., American crusade : Christianity, warfare, and national identity, 1860-1920] (2023) (Petit, Jeanne)
[Rezension von: Wetzel, Benjamin J., American crusade : Christianity, warfare, and national identity, 1860-1920] (2023) (Piehler, G. Kurt)
[Rezension von: Wetzel, Benjamin J., American crusade : Christianity, warfare, and national identity, 1860-1920] (2023) (Haberski, Raymond J., 1968 -)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B USA / Christianity / War / Nationalism / Identity / History 1860-1920
IxTheo Classification:KBQ North America
Further subjects:B National characteristics Religious aspects Christianity History
B United States / Generals / HISTORY
B National characteristics, American History
B World War, 1914-1918 Religious aspects Christianity
B Christianity and politics (United States) History
B War Religious aspects Christianity History
B Spanish-American War, 1898 Religious aspects Christianity
B World War, 1914-1918 (United States)
B religion and warfare, religion and nationalism, wars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the civil war, Spanish american war, world war I
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Summary:When is a war a holy crusade? And when does theology cause Christians to condemn violence? In American Crusade, Benjamin Wetzel argues that the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I shared a cultural meaning for white Protestant ministers in the United States, who considered each conflict to be a modern-day crusade. American Crusade examines the "holy war" mentality prevalent between 1860-1920, juxtaposing mainline Protestant support for these wars with more hesitant religious voices: Catholics, German-speaking Lutherans, and African-American Methodists. The specific theologies and social locations of these more marginal denominations made their ministries much more critical of the crusading mentality. Religious understandings of the nation, both in support of and opposed to armed conflict, played a major role in such ideological contestation. Wetzel's work questions traditional periodizations and suggests that these three wars should be understood as a unit. Grappling with the views of America's religious leaders, supplemented by those of ordinary people, provides a fresh way of understanding the three major American wars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
ISBN:1501763962
Access:Restricted Access
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/9781501763960