BAPTIZED IN BLOOD

Baptized in Blood The Religion of the Lost Cause by Charles Regan Wilson



Baptized in Blood The Religion of the Lost Cause by Charles Regan Wilson

Introduction

The book by Charles Regan Wilson named as The Religion of the Lost Cause is a very honest discussion upon the religious affections of the wounded south in the aftermath of the military extirpation of the Confederate States government following the Civil War (Lloyd , 2000). The religions of mankind have jumped in a short time the center of the cultural and theological attention. It clearly shows the large number of descriptive books dedicated to the different religious traditions of the land, have been published over recent years. Much less abundant, however, works dealing orderly relations that exist or should exist between Christianity and other religions, in a plane of general theological reflection on specific aspects that can be as important as interfaith dialogue and missions.

Thesis Statement

Much focus is paid to the Christianity role in the recovery of south from the civil war.

Discussion

This study of civil religion in the south from 1865 to 1920 fills a cavity in the history of the area. The confederate experience provides the southerners with a base for self examination. They realized that their history was district; the redeemer Nation had died, but remained as a virtuous haunting the spirits and actions of post civil war southerners (Gaines , 2007). The author has developed his prospective of a civil religion that centers on the religious implications of a nation. His organization of the book is good. The book has discussed the theological basis of southern slave society. Anyone who has doubts on the southerner's religious righteousness of the must read the book. The book has highlighted the teachings of Jesus Christ and contradictions inherent in the hateful society of southern. The book gives great understanding about the history of being southern black and the religious right.

The author says theology (Christian) of religions has been established as a discipline and field of research and teaching within the Church throughout the twentieth century. It's basically a reflection that you want to answer the questions that religious diversity poses to Catholic doctrine. Involvement of Christianity with the civil war and slavery is well documented in the book, but much focus if paid to the Christianity role in the recovery of south from the civil war. It is increasingly obvious that there are many links between the ideology of the Lost Cause and the more fanatical and racist elements of the current political right (Fred, 2004). Few people outside that particular subculture understand the extent to which a 19th century revisionist movement underlies much of the controversy and turmoil we are seeing in today's far right. From RS McCain and the Dominionists to a large swath of the fundamentalist movement and Luddite ant science, the shadow of the Confederacy is never very far away.

The book by Wilson in 1865 to 1920 has the religion story in their chronicles of Sectarian of American ...