Baptized in Blood

The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920

von Charles Reagan Wilson

280 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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."

• Reihe: University of Georgia Press
• ISBN: 9780820334257
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2009
• Größe: 229 x 154 mm
• Verlag: Longleaf on behalf of Univ of Georgia Press