Title: The enduring Lost Cause : afterlives of a redeemer nation /
Authors: Crowther, Edward R.
Year: 2020
Subjects: Christianity Southern States.; Christianity; Civilization; War Religious aspects; United States History Religious aspects; Southern States Civilization; Southern States; United States
Abstract: "The year 2020 will mark the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Charles Reagan Wilson's classic study Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920. Conceived in part to honor this milestone, this multiauthor volume seeks to show how various aspects of Lost Cause ideology persist into the present. Among the contributors to this work are Carolyn Dupont, Sandy Dwayne Martin, Colin Chapell, Keith Harper, and Charles Reagan Wilson himself. Among the many aspects of the Lost Cause to be considered are the following: the impact of Lost Cause ideology on southern Christianity; the difficulty of evading neo-Confederate narratives in education; and the influence of Confederate catechisms in keeping Lost Cause ideology alive and well"--
Contents: Introduction / Edward R. Crowther -- Confederate symbology and the prophesy of J. William Jones / Christopher C. Moore -- A pure and priceless heritage : gender construction and the lost cause / Colin Chapell -- "The Truth is Everything" : the Confederate catechism and perpetuating the Lost Cause / Keith Harper -- The Black lost cause : African American Christians during the Post-Reconstruction and Jim Crow Era, 1877-1925 / Sandy Dwayne Martin -- The modernization of the Lost Cause / Charles Reagan Wilson -- "Old Times There Are Not Forgotten" : Confederate commemoration, protest, and debate at the University of Mississippi, 1865-2017 / Leigh McWhite -- Subverting the myth : Lost Cause gender and the Cold War / Alan Scot Willis -- Black and White and Red all over : Mississippi's religious Red Scare / Carolyn Dupont -- "May Their Gallant Souls ... be Honored and Glorified" : Civil War reenacting and the Lost Cause / Bradley Keefer -- The ongoing Lost Cause of Southern cultural superiority and its impact on SBC Home Missions in the mid-1900s / Ed Stetzer -- Redeemer nation and Lost Cause religion : making America great again (for the first time) / Bill J. Leonard -- "Skewed Too Far" : social studies standards and the Lost Cause in Texas / Edward R. Crowther.