American Apocalypse: Yankee Protestants and the Civil War 1860-1869

By James H. Moorhead

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300021526
• ISBN13: 9780300021523
• Release Date: February 1978
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"