Views of the Future State: Afterlife Beliefs in the Deep South, 1820-1865

by Donna Cox Baker

Views of the Future State examines shifting conceptions of the afterlife among literate inhabitants of the antebellum and Civil War-era Deep South. The relatively static 1820 views of a dualistic heaven and hell took on a vibrant complexity by 1865. The challenges of scientific discoveries, universalism, mesmerism, spiritualism, Swedenborgianism, and finally war encouraged bold questioning. Southerners no longer focused primarily on how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0999689908
• ISBN13: 9780999689905
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Golden Channel Publishing
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"