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Feb 10, 2019 · Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865–1920 Posted on February 10, 2019 by PLT Staff. From the publisher: Charles Reagan Wilson documents, for the first time, that for over half a century there existed not one, but two civil religions in the United States, the second not dedicated to honoring the American nation.
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.
Jul 1, 1982 · So, in many ways, "Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause. 1859-1920" penned by Charles Reagan Wilson, professor emeritus of history and southern studies at the University of Mississippi and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Southern Studies, gave me some colorful background to my experiences. This volume first surfaced in the 1980s ...
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Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920. 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 ...
The only chapter in the book which wrestles with the complexity and limita. tions of the religion of the Lost Cause is the last, which documents the reconcilia tion of North and South in the early twentieth century. This is Wilson's strongest chapter, for here the differences and similarities of North and South emerge in a less exaggerated form.
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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.
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 ...
