Southern Civil Religions - Imagining the Good Society in the Post-reconstruction Era

Informationen zum Autor Arthur Remillard is an assistant professor of religious studies at Saint Francis University. He has served as the managing editor and book review editor for the "Journal of Southern Religion" since 2002. Klappentext 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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• Authors: Arthur Remillard
• Assisted by: Riche Richardson (Editor), Jon Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2011
• EAN: 9780820341392
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4139-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: New Southern Studies; The New Southern Studies
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous