Title:
Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War
Format:
Book
ISBN:
9780801886720
Publication Information:
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2007.
Physical Description:
xi, 353 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Contents:
Introduction : religion, religious minorities, and the American Civil War -- Politics and peoplehood in a restless republic -- Our country is at war -- Conscription, combat, and Virginia's "war of self-defense" -- Negotiation and notoriety in Pennsylvania -- Patterns of peace and patriotism in the Midwest -- The fighting comes north -- Thaddeus Stevens and Pennsylvania Mennonite politics -- Did Jesus Christ teach men to war? -- Resistance and revenge in Virginia -- Burning the Shenandoah Valley -- Reconstructed nation, reconstructed peoplehood.
Summary:
"During the American Civil War, the Mennonites and Amish faced moral dilemmas that tested the very core of their faith. How could they oppose both slavery and the war to end it? How could they remain outside the conflict without entering the American mainstream to secure legal conscientious objector status? In the North, living this ethical paradox, marked them as ambivalent participants to the Union cause; in the South, it marked them as clear traitors. In the first scholarly treatment of pacifism during the Civil War, two experts in Anabaptist studies explore the important role of sectarian religion in the conflict and the effects of wartime Americanization on these religious communities." -- Jacket.
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