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
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 10/01/2009
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780820334257
ISBN10: 0820334251
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | 19th Century
- History | United States | 20th Century
- Religion | Religion, Politics & State

About the Author
CHARLES REAGAN WILSON is director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and a professor of history at the University of Mississippi. He is coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and author of Baptized in Blood (Georgia).