Baptized in blood : the religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920 / Charles Reagan Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Charles Reagan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--Southern States.

Christianity.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Religious aspects.

United States.

Southern States--Civilization.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 p.)

Edition:

2009 ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Southerners may have abandoned their dream of a political nation after Appomattox, but they preserved their cultural identity by blending Christian rhetoric and symbols with the rhetoric and imagery of Confederate tradition. Out of defeat emerged a civil religion that embodied the Lost Cause. As Charles Reagan Wilson writes in his new preface, "The Lost Cause version of the regional civil religion was a powerful expression, and recent scholarship affirms its continuing power in the minds of many white southerners."

Contents:

Preface to the 2009 edition: The Lost Cause and the civil religion in recent historiography

Introduction: Origin and overview

Sacred southern ceremonies : ritual of the Lost Cause

Crusading Christian confederates : religious myth of the Lost Cause

Abiding children of pride : theology of the Lost Cause

A Southern Jeremiad : Lost Cause critique of the New South

Morality and mysticism : race and the lost cause

J. William Jones : evangelist of the Lost Cause

Schooled in tradition : a Lost Cause education

A harvest of heroes : reconciliation and vindication.

Notes:

Originally published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1980. With a new pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613303660

9781283303668

1283303663

9780820340722

0820340723

OCLC:

758389689