Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920

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."

Author: Charles Reagan Wilson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 10/01/2009
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780820334257
2nd Edition