Book Summary
Especially in times of war Americans have claimed for their nation a unique world mission, often defining it in religious terms. James Moorhead analyzes a crucial episode of this patriotic piety through the behavior of four major Northern Protestant denominations in the 1860s. After examining the antebellum origins of the concept of America as a redeemer nation, he investigates the churches' use of familiar dogmas -- principally that of millennialism -- to interpret the experience of Civil War and Reconstruction.
Book Details
| Book Name | American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants And The Civil War 1860-1869 |
| Author | James H. Moorhead |
| Publisher | Yale University Press (Mar 1978) |
| ISBN | 9780300021523 |
| Pages | 296 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 3381 |