Southern Civil Religions: Imagining the Good Society in the Post-Reconstruction Era

by Arthur Remillard

Book Overview

In the aftermath of the Civil War, the Lost Cause gave white southerners a new collective identity anchored in the stories, symbols, and rituals of the defeated Confederacy. Historians have used the idea of civil religion to explain how this powerful memory gave the white South a unique sense of national meaning, purpose, and destiny. The civil religious perspectives of everyone else, meanwhile, have gone unnoticed.

Arthur Remillard fills...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820336858
• ISBN13: 9780820336855
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"