A Kingdom Divided: Evangelicals, Loyalty, and Sectionalism in the Civil War Era

by April E. Holm

A Kingdom Divided uncovers how evangelical Christians in the border states influenced debates about slavery, morality, and politics from the 1830s to the 1890s. Using little-studied events and surprising incidents from the region, April E. Holm argues that evangelicals on the border powerfully shaped the regional structure of American religion in the Civil War era.

In the decades before the Civil War, the three largest evangelical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807167711
• ISBN13: 9780807167717
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.1"