Redeeming America: Evangelicals and the Road to Civil War

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Analyzing the struggle by evangelical Protestants for the mind and soul of America in the decades before the Civil War, Johnson lucidly explores the nature of the evangelical message, the conflict of ideas within the movement, and the influence of these forcesboth immediate and far-reachingon American culture. American Ways Series.

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Redeeming America offers a deft guide through the subdivision of evangelical Protestantism in the antebellum U. S. * The Historian *
Accessible and innovative...This major contribution will find wide acceptance. -- John Daly * Journal of Southern History *

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Curtis D. Johnson teaches history at Mount Saint Marys College in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He has also written Islands of Holiness.