Houses Divided
Evangelical Schisms and the Crisis of the Union in Missouri
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 5 April 2018
- ISBN 9780190248321
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 157x236x30 mm
- Weight 567 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
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Houses Divided provides new insights into the significance of the nineteenth-century evangelical schisms that arose initially over the moral question of African American bondage. Volkman examines such fractures in the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches of the slaveholding border state of Missouri. He maintains that congregational and local denominational ruptures before, during, and after the Civil War were central to the crisis of the Union in that state from 1837 to 1876. The schisms were interlinked religious, legal, constitutional, and political developments rife with implications for the transformation of evangelicalism and the United States from the late 1830s to the end of Reconstruction. The evangelical disruptions in Missouri were grounded in divergent moral and political understandings of slavery, abolitionism, secession, and disloyalty. Publicly articulated by factional litigation over church property and a combative evangelical print culture, the schisms were complicated by the race, class, and gender dynamics that marked the contending interests of white middle-class women and men, rural church-goers, and African American congregants. These ruptures forged antagonistic northern and southern evangelical worldviews that increased antebellum sectarian strife and violence, energized the notorious guerilla conflict that gripped Missouri through the Civil War, and fueled post-war vigilantism between opponents and proponents of emancipation. The schisms produced the interrelated religious, legal and constitutional controversies that shaped pro-and anti-slavery evangelical contention before 1861, wartime Radical rule, and the rise and fall of Reconstruction.
Volkman's study reveals that race-, class-, and gender-shaped contestations as urban and rural social interests collided in Missouri during the Civil War. Houses Divided dives deep into the archives of Missouri journalism in the nineteenth century to reveal how news publications wrought conflict upon the people of Missouri.
Table of Contents:
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
