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"""Timothy L. Wesley's useful new study examines the ways in which the clergy, laity, denominational bodies, and national authorities, responded when a minister addressed civil and political issues from behind the sacred desk. This narrow focus represents a welcome addition to a field in which it would be easy to conclude that religion was simply in the Civil War era ether--everywhere and nowhere at the same time...a fine contribution to our understanding of religion and the Civil War, and to our understanding of the clergy's place in that struggle.""-- ""The Journal of Southern Religion"" ""Wesley's book is an important contribution to our understanding of religion's significant influence on the home front during the war.""-- ""Civil War Book Review"" In taking up this topic, Wesley has offered one of the most helpful studies to date for why religion mattered in the lively and often rough-and-tumble political world of the Civil War.-- ""Civil War Monitor"" The Politics of Faith During the Civil War is an excellent book about the influence of home-front ministers during the Civil War era, every bit as interesting a subject as the oft-covered role of ministers as chaplains to the opposing armies...Highly recommended.-- ""Civil War Medicine and Writing"" ""[A] fine volume....Anyone interested in nineteenth-century American religion should read Wesley's work.""-- ""Church History"" ""[A] thought-provoking and ambitious volume. . . . This book uncovers a previously overlooked chapter in the history of civil liberties in wartime.""-- ""Reviews in American History"" ""[Wesley's] wide-ranging scope, extensive research, and at times downright contrarianism make his book not only an intriguing read, but also an important contribution to the ever-expanding scholarship on the American Civil War's religious history.""-- ""Fides et Historia"" ""The strongest element of the book analytically is Wesley's effort to create a taxonomy of preacher politics. . . . The Politics of Faith during the Civil War is a noteworthy contribution for relentlessly returning the religious class to its rightful place at the political center of everything that brought the war on and fought it through.""-- ""Civil War History"" ""Timothy L. Wesley contributes to what is becoming a deep and diverse literature on religion in the Civil War era. . . . Wesley adds nuance to this important discussion with a keen sense of change over time and regional variation.""-- ""Journal of Southern History"" [Wesley] delivers an engaging book-length study . . . that details and examines the rhetorical practices of the clergy, their national organizations, and their congregations. . . . While filling in important gaps in the scholarship, the book presents a compelling picture of the role of religious rhetoric in the lives of citizens and politicians.-- ""Journal of American Culture"" Wesley has...made an original contribution to our understanding of the war years through his study of ministers on all sides of the conflict.-- ""American Catholic Studies"""

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Timothy L. Wesley is associate professor of Civil War era history at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN.

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