Catholic Confederates : faith and duty in the Civil War South

Author/Creator:

Kraszewski, Gracjan Anthony, 1987- author

Publication/Creation:

Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2020]

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

Catholic Confederates : faith and duty in the Civil War South / Gracjan Kraszewski

Series Titles:

The Civil War era in the South
Civil War era in the South.

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Catholics--Southern States--History--19th century
Christianity and politics--Southern States--History--19th century
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Religious aspects
Confederate States of America--History

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

The bishops respond to secession and the first year of the war, 1860-1861 -- Confederatization on the battlefield: Catholic chaplains and soldiers, 1862-1864 -- Catholicity on the battlefield: chaplains and soldiers, 1862-1864 -- The ambiguities of peace: the bishops during the war -- Healing: Catholic sister-nurses during the war -- Across the sea: Catholicism and Confederate diplomacy -- Conclusion 1865: The end of the war everywhere.

Summary:

"How did Southern Catholics, under international religious authority and grounding unlike Southern Protestants, act with regard to political commitments in the recently formed Confederacy? How did they balance being both Catholic and Confederate? How is the Southern Catholic Civil War experience similar or dissimilar to the Southern Protestant Civil War experience? What new insights might this experience provide regarding Civil War religious history, the history of Catholicism in America, 19th-century American history, and Southern history in general? For the majority of Southern Catholics, religion and politics were not a point of tension. Devout Catholics were also devoted Confederates, including nuns who served as nurses; their deep involvement in the Confederate cause as medics confirms the all-encompassing nature of Catholic involvement in the Confederacy, a fact greatly underplayed by scholars of Civil War religion and American Catholicism. Kraszewski argues against an "Americanization" of Catholics in the South and instead coins the term "Confederatization" to describe the process by which Catholics made themselves virtually indistinguishable from their Protestant neighbors. The religious history of the South has been primarily Protestant. Catholic Confederates simultaneously fills a gap in Civil War religious scholarship and in American Catholic literature by bringing to light the deep impact Catholicism has had on Southern society even in the very heart of the Bible Belt"--

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xxiii, 196 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustration ; 24 cm.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937234203702486

ISBN:

9781606353950
1606353950

OCLC Number:

1121602580

Barcode:

010003118320