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\nTime has not diminished the value of “Baptized in Blood” (University of
\nGeorgia Press, 1980) because an understanding of the memory of the
\nCivil War still plays an important role in understanding the culture of
\nthe South. Wilson’s work provides a unique combination of the concept
\nof civil religion and memory in its analysis of the post-Civil War
\nSouth.\n<\/p>\n
\n“Scholarly books usually go out of style so
\nquickly that it is notable when an academic work is still selling
\ncopies 15 or 20 years after it is published,” said Ted Ownby, director
\nof the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. “So it is extremely
\nrare for a press to publish a new edition of a 30-year-old work of
\nhistory.”\n<\/p>\n
\nThe new edition features an expansion of the ideas of the
\noriginal work, and raises questions that should be interesting to
\nanyone who wants to explore the continuing meaning of the Civil War in
\nthe South, Wilson said.\n<\/p>\n
\n“My book explores the cultural struggles of white
\nSoutherners trying to reorient their culture after the Civil War,” he
\nsaid. “The new edition explores the meaning of Confederate defeat for
\nblack Southerners as well. The results of the war brought their freedom
\nso they didn’t mourn the loss of the Confederacy at all.”\n<\/p>\n
\nStudents from outside the South have pointed to “Baptized in
\nBlood” as an important resource that helped them understand why
\nSoutherners place such value on flags, monuments and the like, Ownby
\nsaid.\n<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n\nWilson is the university’s Kelly Gene Cook Sr. Chair of
\nHistory and professor of Southern studies. He served as director of the
\nSouthern studies academic program from 1991 to 1998 and director of the
\nCenter for the Study of Southern Culture from 1998 to 2007. Wilson
\nserved as co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (University
\nof North Carolina Press, 1989) and is the general editor of the New
\nEncyclopedia of Southern Culture (University of North Carolina Press).\n<\/p>\n
\nHe is also author of “Judgment and Grace in Dixie: Southern
\nFaiths from Faulkner to Elvis,” (University of Georgia Press, 2007) and
\nis editor or co-editor of “Religion and the American Civil War” (Oxford
\nUniversity Press, 1998), “The New Regionalism” (University Press of
\nMississippi, 1998) and “Religion in the South” (University Press of
\nMississippi, 1985).\n<\/p>\n
\nThis semester, Wilson is teaching a graduate seminar in Southern
\nstudies and an undergraduate class on Southern religious history.\n<\/p>\n
\nCopies of the new edition of “Baptized in Blood” are available at Square Books in Oxford and the Ole Miss Bookstore.\n<\/p>\n
\nFor more information about the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, visit http:\/\/www.olemiss.edu\/depts\/ OXFORD, Miss. – As a tribute to its continued importance in the fields of history and Southern Studies, University of Mississippi professor Charles Wilson’s book “Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920” has been reissued 30 years after its original publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n