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Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern Church - Softcover

Graham, Christopher Alan

 
9780813948805: Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern Church
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0813948800 ISBN 13: 9780813948805
Verlag: University of Virginia Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause is a new history of Richmond’s famous St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, attended by Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis during the Civil War and a tourist magnet thereafter. Christopher Alan Graham’s narrative—which emerged out of St. Paul’s History and Reconciliation Initiative—charts the congregation’s theological and secular views of race from the church’s founding in 1845 to the present day, exploring the church’s complicity in Lost Cause narratives and racial oppression in Richmond.

Graham investigates the ways that the actions of elite white southerners who imagined themselves as benevolent—liberal, even—in their treatment of Black people through the decades obscured the actual damage to Black bodies and souls that this ostensible liberalism caused. Placing the legacy of St. Paul’s self-described benevolent paternalism in dialogue with the racial and religious geography of Richmond, Graham reflects on what an authentic process of recognition and reparations might be, drawing useful lessons for America writ large.

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Christopher Alan Graham is a historian and museum curator in Richmond, Va.

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Verlag
University of Virginia Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0813948800
ISBN 13 
9780813948805
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
215
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