In her work This Republic of Suffering, D. G. Faust
argued that even though America was being transformed culturally and
intellectually, religion was still the main source for explanation for the mass
death caused by the Civil War. So, the good death and religious convictions
mixed with patriotism made killing, dying and mourning more easy, to the point
that, as she remarks, many scholars believe that religion enabled the carnage. Again in the midst of the patriotic endeavor,
the American “civil spirituality” presented by Thomas Kidd in his God of Liberty can be observed as the source for the ideals
of the “good death” described by Faust.
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