“How Dare Men Mix up the Bible so with Their Own Bad Passions”: When the Good Book Became the Bad Book in the American Civil War
This essay examines how the American Civil War (1861–1865) transformed the material nature of the Bible such that some copies did not operate in the ways Anglo-Americans expected them to work as the inspired words of God. According to U.S. law, Bibles shipped to the Confederate States were contraban...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2022
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Material religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 18, Issue: 2, Pages: 129-160 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Civil War (1861-1865)
/ Bible
/ Print
/ Konterbande
/ Weapon
/ Talisman
/ Protestantism
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| RelBib Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics HA Bible KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBQ North America KDD Protestant Church |
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contraband
B American Civil War B the Bad Book B Weapons B American Protestantism B bad Bibles B Bible B bad books B commodities B Talismans B Bibles |
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