Visions of Zion

Christianity, Modernization and the American Pursuit of Liberty Progessivism in Rural Nelson and Washington Counties Kentucky

J. Larry Hood (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

298 Seiten

2005
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-7618-3065-8 (ISBN)

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Three decades after the Civil War-amidst a resurgent patriotic fervor, a new Christian Awakening and an enveloping modernization promising heretofore unimagined heights of prosperity and well-being-a new generation of Americans in rural Nelson and Washington Counties, Kentucky, were experiencing what Lincoln in their fathers' war had promised: a new birth of freedom. Before them they saw the ancient vision of Zion, America as the new Promised Land, the Christian Republic, the Shining City on a Hill, shedding its light of prosperity and freedom on all. Their destiny and calling, they had no doubt, was to secure liberty and its blessings for themselves and posterity.

This was the Vision and the hope that united them as a people and as a crusading army at home and abroad, inspiring a multitude of social and political reforms and drawing them into the Great War of 1914-1918. It is this story that Visions of Zion tells-of dreams that united and divided, that lifted up and brought low-a story of a drive for everlasting peace that led to war and that finally ends with the collapse of Zion and fading of all those wondrous dreams of a better world.

J. Larry Hood is Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. Professor Hood received his M.B.A. from Xavier University and his Ph.D. in American History from the University of Kentucky.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 At the Turn of the Century
Chapter 3 The Promised Land: Nelson and Washington Counties, 1784-1900
Chapter 4 Just Beyond the Far Horizon: Progress, Prosperity, and Power, 1900-1914
Chapter 5 By Faith We Shall See It: Strengthening the Individual, the Family, the Community and Nation, 1900-1914
Chapter 6 Marching to Zion: Progressivism's Further Advance, 1914-1917
Chapter 7 Onward Christian Soldiers: Reformation of the World through War, 1917-1918
Chapter 8 Progressivism Triumphant: The Long Awaited Day, 1917-1918
Chapter 9 No Road Home: Turning the Progressive Crusade Around, 1918-1921
Chapter 10 And the Ages Roll, A Summing Up
Chapter 11 Postscript
Chapter 12 Appendix: Nelson and Washington Counties as a Case Study in Progressivism
Chapter 13 Maps
Chapter 14 Endnotes
Chapter 15 Bibliography
Chapter 16 Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.4.2005
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 228 mm
Gewicht	449 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-7618-3065-0 / 0761830650
ISBN-13	978-0-7618-3065-8 / 9780761830658
Zustand	Neuware