{"product_id":"9780813956107","title":"Christ, Church, and Country","description":"\u003cp\u003eA history of the home mission movement and a window on the roots of Christian nationalism   In the decades after the American Civil War, men, women, and children across the Northern United States bankrolled a continental effort to create a homogenous Protestant republic through the home mission movement-a domestic counterpart to foreign missions abroad. This book provides the first multidenominational account of post-Civil War home missions by focusing on the thousands of ordinary Americans who supported them spiritually, emotionally, and-above all-financially. These benefactors believed that through subsidizing the soul saving of their fellow countrymen, they would receive spiritual blessings of their own. Millions of dollars' worth of this so-called moral capital crisscrossed the nation, creating a \"spiritual economy\" that Northern Protestants hoped would reunite the republic and bind it for all time.   Christ, Church, and Country tells the story of a nation still reeling from the shock of the Civil War embarking upon a period of unprecedented economic growth and demographic transformation-convulsions that encouraged many Americans to use religious benevolence as a tool to bring greater coherence not only to the republic but also to their own disordered selves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48013604454452,"sku":"9780813956107","price":256.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9780813956107.jpg?v=1783635355","url":"https:\/\/woodslane.com.au\/products\/9780813956107","provider":"Woodslane","version":"1.0","type":"link"}