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- Extensively researched in primary sources, Baptized in Blood is a significant and well-written study of the South’s civil religion, one of two public faiths in America. In his comparison, Wilson finds the Lost Cause offered defeated Southerners a sense of meaning and purpose and special identity as a precarious but distinct culture.
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May 19, 2017 · On the contrary, Charles Reagan Wilson’s Baptized in Blood is not a book by an author seeking to glorify the mythical past of a falsely idealized Southern People. Rather, it is an account which seeks to explain historically why ideas such as these came to be in the first place.
Feb 10, 2019 · In this light, Wilson explores the role of religion in postbellum southern culture and argues that the profound dislocations of Confederate defeat caused southerners to think in religious terms about the meaning of their unique and tragic experience.
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.
Jul 1, 1982 · In this light, Wilson explores the role of religion in postbellum southern culture and argues that the profound dislocations of Confederate defeat caused southerners to think in religious terms about the meaning of their unique and tragic experience.
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Oct 1, 2009 · 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 ...
Mar 15, 2011 · Charles Reagan Wilson. University of Georgia Press, Mar 15, 2011 - Religion - 264 pages. Southerners may have abandoned their dream of a political nation after Appomattox, but they preserved...
Wilson explores the manifestations of this "religion of the Lost Cause" in ritual and myth, in theology and education, in conflicts over race and industri alization.
