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Recent Historiography on Religion and the Civil War by Bruce
Gourley
(section 8 of 9)
Women and Religion During the Civil
War
The
subject of women and religion during the Civil War has
been partially addressed by historians within the
larger context of women reformers, or referred to
occasionally against the backdrop of larger Civil War
themes.[70]
Drew Gilpin Faust, in Mothers of Invention: Women
of the Slaveholding South in the Civil War (1996),
directly addresses the subject, examining the
relationship of Southern women’s faith and action. In
the absence of men at home, women’s faith sustained
them in difficult times, resulted in new spiritual
leadership roles in the household, and ultimately led
to greater leadership roles within the church.[71]
Two
essays in the Religion and the American Civil War
volume shed further light on this underdeveloped
subject: “Days of Judgment, Days of Wrath: The Civil
War and the Religious Imagination of Women Writers” by
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, and “’Without Pilot or
Compass’: Elite Women and Religion in the Civil War
South,” by Drew Gilpin Faust.[72]
A third essay, “’From It Begins a New Era: Women and
the Civil War” (Baptist History and Heritage
32, 3-4, July / October 1997) by Marlene H. Rikard and
Elizabeth C. Wells, provides an overview of women in
the Civil War era with an emphasis on religion.[73]
More work is needed in this field of study.
Continue to Denominational Histories
[70] See the
bibliographical listings in Miller, Religion,
245-249, 258-260. Much has been written
concerning religion and women in the earlier
revival era, but significantly less in terms of
the Civil War years.
[71] Drew Gilpin Faust,
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding
South in the Civil War (Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1996),
181-187.
[72] Elizabeth
Fox-Genovese, “Days of Judgment, Days of Wrath:
The Civil War and the Religious Imagination of
Women Writers,” in Religion and the American
Civil War, ed. Randall M. Miller (New York and
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 229-249.
Drew Gilpin Faust, “’Without Pilot or Compass’:
Elite Women and Religion in the Civil War South,”
in Religion and the American Civil War, ed.
Randall M. Miller (New York and Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1998), 250-560.
[73] Marlene H. Rikard and
Elizabeth C. Wells, “’From It Begins a New Era’:
Women and the Civil War,” Baptist History and
Heritage 32, nos. 3-4 (July / October 1997):
59-73.
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