The sacralization of the southern social order and the foundations of American confessionalization 1837-1865

The sacralization of the southern social order and the foundations of American confessionalization 1837-1865

Church and state

Slavery and the church

Cahoon, Bruce Wayne

2007

Cruz, Laura, 1969-

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This study looks to sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe to explain the religious/political dynamic of the antebellum South. Early modem European religion and politics interacted in a dynamic relationship that was at the root of the religious violence of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Peace of Westphalia instituted religious tolerance and established absolutism on the Continent, the absolute rule of monarchs and princes legitimized by religious confessions. James Madison saw the established European churches and any kind of official religion as threats to liberty. Although absolute rule of political elites was never instituted in the United States, and religious liberty was codified in the First Amendment, the religious/political forces at work in early modern Europe can, theoretically, be seen at work in antebellum America, culminating in the Civil War. Early modem Europe, then, can be seen as a theoretical bridge to the relationship of religion to antebellum society, culture, and politics.

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