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"...Stout's sensitivity to religious rhetoric and the spiritual and ethical lens through which he examines the war allow him to show, if not really to explicate, how the North's understanding of its purpose bequeathed to the country a muddled, missionary civic religion, which 'sacralized' the American state and 'elevated America as its own religion.'"Stout, Harry is the author of 'Upon the Altar of a Nation A Moral History of the Civil War', published 2006 under ISBN 9780670034703 and ISBN 0670034703.
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