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Southern civil religions : imagining the good society in the post-Reconstruction Era / Arthur Remillard.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New southern studiesPublication details: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (x, 234 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 0820341339
  • 9780820341330
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Southern civil religions.DDC classification:
  • 201/.7097509034 22
LOC classification:
  • BL2527.S67 R46 2011
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Progressive voices, traditional voices: Reconstruction, redemption, and the "gospel of material progress" -- Black voices, white voices: the race problem as a place problem -- Female voices, male voices: devotion and the "noble daughters of the South" -- Jewish voices, gentile voices: "the soul of America is the soul of the Bible" -- Catholic voices, nativist voices: true and untrue Americans.
Summary: The Lost Cause gave white southerners a new collective identity anchored in the stories of the defeated Confederacy. Historians have used the idea of civil religion to explain how this memory gave the white South a sense of national meaning. This book investigates the civil religious perspectives of a wide array of groups.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)458457

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Progressive voices, traditional voices: Reconstruction, redemption, and the "gospel of material progress" -- Black voices, white voices: the race problem as a place problem -- Female voices, male voices: devotion and the "noble daughters of the South" -- Jewish voices, gentile voices: "the soul of America is the soul of the Bible" -- Catholic voices, nativist voices: true and untrue Americans.

The Lost Cause gave white southerners a new collective identity anchored in the stories of the defeated Confederacy. Historians have used the idea of civil religion to explain how this memory gave the white South a sense of national meaning. This book investigates the civil religious perspectives of a wide array of groups.