| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Daniel W. Stowell. Rebuilding Zion: The Religious Reconstruction of the South, 1863–1877. New York: Oxford University Press. 1998. Pp. viii, 278. $65.00.

Daniel W. Stowell has written a book we have needed for a long time. With clarity and insight, he has reconstructed the religious perspectives and interests of Protestant freedpeople, white southerners, and black and white northerners who struggled to build their own particular Zion in the postwar South. Rather than focus on one group, to the exclusion or distortion of others, he has brought the stories together to suggest the dialectics that created, at the same time, a thoroughly evangelical Protestant landscape and a more divided Protestantism in the South. Most important, he has approached each group's view of providence and efforts at church-building with respect and let each group have its say. . . .

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