[PDF.43tc] Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920

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

[PDF.ab81] Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920

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 | #556650 in Books |  University of Georgia Press |  2009-10-01 |  2009-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.63 x5.98l,.91 | File type: PDF | 264 pages

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||8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| Landmark Study of Society and Religion in the Postbellum South|By Frank Bellizzi|I know, the title of this book sounds like a slasher film, right? So what's it really about? To use the words of the author, historian Charles Reagan Wilson, it's about "the afterlife of a Redeemer Nation that died" but that nonetheless continued "as a sacred presence, a holy ghost haunting the spi| ||Destined to be the definitive essay on the relation between religion and southern regional patriotism. (Journal of Southern History)

|This interesting and valuable study breaks new ground in Reconstruction and New South history. . . . What m

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 p...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920   |  Charles Wilson. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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