Jennifer Graber: 3 books
The Furnace of Affliction
Prisons and Religion in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
Focusing on the intersection of Christianity and politics in the American penitentiary system, Jennifer Graber explores evangelical Protestants' efforts to make religion central to emerging practices and philosophies of prison discipline from the 1790s through the 1850s.
Initially, state and...
The Gods of Indian Country
Religion and the Struggle for the American West
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
During the nineteenth century, white Americans sought the cultural transformation and physical displacement of Native people. Though this process was certainly a clash of rival economic systems and racial ideologies, it was also a profound spiritual struggle. The fight over Indian Country sparked...
Apocalypse and the Millennium in the American Civil War Era
Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895--1943
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
In the Civil War era, Americans nearly unanimously accepted that humans battled in a cosmic contest between good and evil and that God was directing history toward its end. The concept of God's Providence and of millennialism -- Christian anticipations of the end of the world -- dominated religious...