Faith, race, and the Lost Cause : confessions of a southern church /

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"This accessible history of Richmond's (in)famous St. Paul's Episcopal Church, the church attended by Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis during the Civil War and a tourist magnet thereafter, emerged out of St. Paul's History and Reconciliation Initiative to chart the congregation&...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Graham, Christopher Alan (Author)
Other Authors: Mullen, Melanie (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023.
Subjects:
St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Richmond, Va.) > History.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Richmond, Va.)
Race relations > Religious aspects > Episcopal Church.
Racism > Religious aspects > Episcopal Church.
Racism against Black people > Virginia > Richmond > History.
Lost Cause mythology.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Racism against Black people.
Richmond (Va.) > Church history.
Virginia > Richmond.
Church history.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Reverend Melanie Mullen
  • The Sacred Obligation of Slavery at St. Paul's
  • St. Paul's in War and after Emancipation
  • The Social Gospel in a Lost Cause Church
  • St. Paul's in Reaction
  • Effective Witness
  • Epilogue: Our Sacred Obligation Now.

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