“The Voice of God upon the Waters”: Sermons on Steamboat Disasters in Antebellum America
The purpose of this paper is to explore Protestant sermons on shipwrecks between the 1830s and the 1850s and to analyze how the clergy guided the people to see the spiritual lessons behind the disasters. Preachers admonished their flock that maritime disasters showed the uncertainty of earthly lives...
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| Language: | English |
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2011
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| Online Access: | https://ijms.nmdl.org/article/view/9119 |