American Crusade : : Christianity, Warfare, and National Identity, 1860–1920 / / Benjamin J. Wetzel.

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• VerfasserIn: Wetzel, Benjamin J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
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When is a war a holy crusade? And when does theology cause Christians to condemn violence? In American Crusade, Benjamin Wetzel argues that the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I shared a cultural meaning for white Protestant ministers in the United States, who considered each conf...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Christianity, Warfare, and National Identity, 1860–1920
• 1. “The God of Justice Is the God of Battles”: Northern White Protestants and the Civil War
• 2. “Heavy Is the Guilt That Hangs upon the Neck of This Nation”: The African Methodist
• 3. “A War of Mercy”: White Mainline Protestants and the Spanish- American War
• 4. “I Look upon This War as an Impudent Crime”: Roman Catholicism, Americanization, and the Spanish-American War
• 5. “A Louder Call for War”: The Protestant Mainline and the Twentieth-Century Crusade
• 6. “There Will Be a Day of Reckoning for Our Country”: Missouri Synod Lutherans Face World War I
• Conclusion: The Mere Echo of the Warring Masses
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index