Vale of Tears New Essays on Religion And Reconstruction

Vale of Tears: New Essays in Religion and Reconstructionoffers a windowinto the exciting work being done by historians, social scientists, and scholarsof religious studies on the epoch of Reconstruction. A time of both peril andpromise, Reconstruction in America became a cauldron of transformation andchange. This collection argues that religion provided the idiom and symbol, asoften the very substance, of those changes. The authors of this collectionexamine how African Americans and white Southerners, New EnglandAbolitionists and former Confederate soldiers, Catholics and Protestants onboth sides of the Mason-Dixon line brought their sense of the sacred intocollaboration and conflict. Together, these essays mark an important newdeparture in a still-contested period of American history.Blum, Edward J. is the author of 'Vale of Tears New Essays on Religion And Reconstruction', published 2005 under ISBN 9780865549623 and ISBN 0865549621.