Let me make sure I'm getting this right...

In regards to war, I think that the stark contrast in the shift of American attitude from Faust's to Ebel's work was a bit jarring and hard to settle into. I had to rely on a bit of previous reading about post-civil war America to make the connection and fill in the blanks between the two periods. The further along I read in Ebel's work, especially in the few chapters prior to his conclusion, I found his discussion on religion seemed to be tabled a bit, so I just want to make sure I am understanding his conclusions. Here is what I have deduced; please offer any thoughts,  corrections and/or guide me as I theorize:

During the post-civil war period of great industrialization in America, as men left the home to work women were left to tend to domestic duties creating a new gender dynamic, defined binary roles for the man and woman in a household. This left the woman responsible for religious education, creating a more effeminate version of Jesus. Men had a hard time connecting with this Jesus, and the churches that adopted this Christ, therefore pushing away men from the church and raising a new generation of young boys with a motherly Christ as their savior. This combined with the threat of the over-civilization, urbanization and the "threat" of African-American manual laborers to white masculinity created a demand for a more masculine warrior Jesus. The Great War offered a way for men to either connect with this new warrior Christ, or substitute war (and death) as a heroic, salvific measure in opposition to the religion of the effeminate Christ??? This latter seems to be the lasting impression this war gave to American Civil religion; Duty to country as duty to God.