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Visions of Zion: Christianity, Modernization and the American Pursuit of Liberty Progessivism in Rural Nelson and Washington Counties Kentucky

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Three decades after the Civil War-amidst a resurgent patriotic fervor, a new Christian Awakening and an enveloping modernization promising heretofore unimagined heights of prosperity and well-being-a new generation of Americans in rural Nelson and Washington Counties, Kentucky, were experiencing what Lincoln of their fathers’ war had promised: a new birth of freedom. Before them they saw the ancient vision of Zion, The united states as the brand new Promised Land, the Christian Republic, the Shining City on a Hill, shedding its light of prosperity and freedom on all. Their destiny and calling, they had surely, used to be to safe liberty and its blessings for themselves and posterity. This used to be the Vision and the hope that united them as a people and as a crusading army at home and in a foreign country, inspiring a multitude of social and political reforms and drawing them into the Great War of 1914-1918. It’s this story that Visions of Zion tells-of dreams that united and divided, that lifted up and brought low-a story of a drive for everlasting peace that led to war and that in spite of everything ends with the collapse of Zion and fading of all those wondrous dreams of a higher world.

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