Table of Contents

Preface
Randall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, Charles Reagan Wilson: Introduction
Overview
1: Philip Shaw Paludan: Religion and the American Civil War
Ideas
2: Mark A. Noll: The Bible and Slavery
3: Eugene D. Genovese: Religion in the Collapse of the Union
4: Bertram Wyatt-Brown: Church, Honor, and Secession
5: George M. Fredrickson: The Coming of the Lord: The Northern Protestant Clergy and the Civil War Crisis
6: Kurt O. Berends: "Wholesome Reading Purifies and Elevates the Man": The Religious Military Press in the Confederacy
7: Paul Harvey: "Yankee Faith" and Southern Redemption: White Southern Baptist Ministers, 1850-1880
8: Daniel W. Stowell: Stonewall Jackson and the Providence of God
9: Ronald C. White: Lincoln's Sermon on the Mount: The Second Inaugural
10: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese: Days of Judgement, Days of Wrath: The Civil War and the Religious Imagination of Women Writers
11: Drew Gilpin Faust: "Without Pilot or Compass": Elite Women and Religion in the Civil War South
12: Randall M. Miller: Catholic Religion, Irish Ethnicity, and the Civil War
13: Reid Mitchell: Christian Soldiers?: Perfecting the Confederacy
Places
14: Harry S. Stout and Christopher Grasso: Civil War, Religion and Communications: Richmond as a Case Study
15: Samual S. Hill: Religion and the Results of the Civil War
Comparisons
16: Charles Reagan Wilson: Religion and the American Civil War in Comparative Perspective
James M. McPherson: Afterward
Contributors
Index

Reviews

The volume is a treasure for those interested in the Civil War, American religion, and the relation of one to the other The Journal of American History This book goes a long way in rectifying the long-neglected aspect of the importance of religion in America's Civil War. The essays are by excellent scholars who write well. Each essay is well documented for those wishing to delve further into a particular field of study The Journal of American History