Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820334257)

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
ISBN-10: 0820334251
ISBN-13: 9780820334257
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2009
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Christian Century 04/30/2014 pg. 35