Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920, Paperback (2nd Ed.)

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• Author: Charles Wilson

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."
 
Review citations

• Christian Century - pg. 35 - 04/30/2014