{"title":"Between Scylla and Charybdis: religion and the meaning of Union in the border states, 1861–1865","authors":"G. W. Jones","doi":"10.1080/14664658.2022.2077610","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores how some preachers in the loyal border slave states – Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware – endorsed the Union throughout the American Civil War. A comparative analysis of their sermons reveals that they often espoused themes compelled by the region’s unique cultural and geopolitical context, a phenomenon that the author terms “rhetorical indigenisation.” These “local” leitmotifs de-Northernised Unionism by emphasizing the border’s mediating potential, by stressing the transcendent covenantal obligations of all Americans, and by making fidelity a fulfilment of Southern ideals like honour, masculinity, and paternalism. Above all, such sermonic responses displayed an unyielding conservatism that rejected the immoderation of both North and South.","PeriodicalId":41829,"journal":{"name":"American Nineteenth Century History","volume":"23 1","pages":"41 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"American Nineteenth Century History","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14664658.2022.2077610","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT This article explores how some preachers in the loyal border slave states – Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware – endorsed the Union throughout the American Civil War. A comparative analysis of their sermons reveals that they often espoused themes compelled by the region’s unique cultural and geopolitical context, a phenomenon that the author terms “rhetorical indigenisation.” These “local” leitmotifs de-Northernised Unionism by emphasizing the border’s mediating potential, by stressing the transcendent covenantal obligations of all Americans, and by making fidelity a fulfilment of Southern ideals like honour, masculinity, and paternalism. Above all, such sermonic responses displayed an unyielding conservatism that rejected the immoderation of both North and South.
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