Damned nation : (Record no. 135582)

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LC control number 2013045248
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System control number (Sirsi) i9780199843114
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National bibliography number GBB461434
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Record control number 016741923
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International Standard Book Number 9780199843114 (cloth : alk. paper)
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International Standard Book Number 0199843112 (cloth : alk. paper)
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System control number (OCoLC)873763465
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050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number BR 517
Item number .G56 2014
049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC)
Holding library VF$A
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Gin Lum, Kathryn.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Damned nation :
Remainder of title hell in America from the Revolution to Reconstruction /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Kathryn Gin Lum.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Oxford ;
-- New York :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Oxford University Press,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice [2014]
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xiii, 310 pages :
Other physical details illustrations, maps ;
Dimensions 25 cm
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504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note "Salvation" vs. "damnation" : doctrinal controversies in the early republic -- "His blood covers me!" : disseminating damnation in the Second Great Awakening -- "Oh, deliver me from being contentedly guilty" : laypeople and the fear of hell -- "Ideas, opinions, can not damn the soul" : antebellum dissent against damnation -- "Slavery destroys immortal souls" : deployment of damnation in the slavery controversy -- "Our men die well" : damnation, death, and the Civil War.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Among the pressing concerns of Americans in the first century of nationhood were day-to-day survival, political harmony, exploration of the continent, foreign policy, and -- fixed deeply in the collective consciousness -- hell and eternal damnation. The fear of fire and brimstone and the worm that never dies exerted a profound and lasting influence on Americans' ideas about themselves, their neighbors, and the rest of the world. Kathryn Gin Lum poses a number of vital questions: Why did the fear of hell survive Enlightenment critiques in America, after largely subsiding in Europe and elsewhere? What were the consequences for early and antebellum Americans of living with the fear of seeing themselves and many people they knew eternally damned? How did they live under the weighty obligation to save as many souls as possible? What about those who rejected this sense of obligation and fear? Gin Lum shows that beneath early Americans' vaunted millennial optimism lurked a pervasive anxiety: that rather than being favored by God, they and their nation might be the object of divine wrath. As time-honored social hierarchies crumbled before revival fire, economic unease, and political chaos, "saved" and "damned" became as crucial distinctions as race, class, and gender. The threat of damnation became an impetus for or deterrent from all kinds of behaviors, from reading novels to owning slaves. Gin Lum tracks the idea of hell from the Revolution to Reconstruction. She considers the ideas of theological leaders like Jonathan Edwards and Charles Finney, as well as those of ordinary women and men. She discusses the views of Native Americans, Americans of European and African descent, residents of Northern insane asylums and Southern plantations, New England's clergy and missionaries overseas, and even proponents of Swedenborgianism and annihilationism. Damned Nation offers a captivating account of an idea that played a transformative role in America's intellectual and cultural history.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name United States
General subdivision Church history.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Hell
General subdivision Christianity
-- Public opinion.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Americans
General subdivision Attitudes.
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Holdings
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    Library of Congress Classification     Storms Research Center Storms Research Center Main Collection 10/28/2025   BR 517 .G56 2014 98649812 10/28/2025 24.61 10/28/2025 Book