Essay question: What role did religion play in how Americans interpreted the Civil War?
Talk about the narratives of apocalypse, blood sacrifice/atonement, divine Providence etc that emerge around the war. Consider BOTH Union and Confederacy.
MUST INCLUDE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES
Suggested PRIMARY SOURCES:
https://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/baptist/baptist.html
http://www.lutheran-hymnal.com/lyrics/lw518.htm- BATTLE HYMN
Suggested Secondary sources:
https://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.co.uk/&httpsredir=1&article=4655&context=utk_graddiss
Robert Bellah, “Civil Religion in America” https://www.jstor.org/stable/20027022
James Moorhead, “A Reassessment of Millennialism in American Religious Thought, 1800-1880,” https://www.jstor.org/stable/1887470
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2001/12/while-god-is-marching-on-the-religious-world-of-civil-war-soldiers
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2016/spring/chaplains.html