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.

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.