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Apocalypse and the millennium in the American Civil War era

Apocalypse and the millennium in the American Civil War era [electronic resource] / edited by Ben Wright and Zachary W. Dresser ; with a foreword by Mark A. Noll. - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Conflicting worlds : new dimensions of the American Civil War .

Includes index.

Introduction / Ben Wright and Zachary W. Dresser -- The prophecy of Edmund Ruffin : anticipating the future of Civil War history / Jason Phillips -- Spirit politics : radical abolitionists and the dead end of spiritualism / Robert K. Nelson -- "This flattering millennium theory" : denominationalism against millennialism in James Fenimore Cooper's The crater / Ryan Cordell -- Millennialism and the Church of England's mission to fugitive slaves in Canada / Nina Reid-Maroney -- Colonization and the limits of antislavery in Upcountry South Carolina / Joseph Moore -- The great Indian pentecost : providential revisions, Indian evangelization, and the taking of the American West / Jennifer Graber -- Providence revised : the southern Presbyterian old school in the Civil War and Reconstruction / Zachary W. Dresser -- Emancipation and African American millennialism / Matthew Harper -- A sharecropper's millennium : land and the perils of forgiveness in post Civil War South Carolina / Scott Nesbit -- "Two divisions of the same great army" : ecclesiastical separation by race and the millennium / Charles F. Irons -- "To doubt this would be to doubt God" : Reconstruction and the decline of providential confidence / Edward J. Blum.

9780807151938


Millennium (Eschatology)
End of the world.
Millennialism--History--United States--19th century.


United States--History--Religious aspects.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--Religion--19th century.


Electronic books.

BR525 / .A74 2013

277.3/081