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

by Wilson, Charles Reagan

• ISBN13: 9780820334257
• ISBN10: 0820334251
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780820306810
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-01
• Publisher: Ingram Publisher Services, Inc.
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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."

Author Biography

Charles Reagan Wilson is Kelly Gene Cook, Sr., Chair in History and Professor of Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern Faiths from Faulkner to Elvis, Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920, (both Georgia) and general editor of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.