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4. Lost Cause: The Rise and Fall of a Symbolic Crusade Movement


 
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1. Title Title of document 4. Lost Cause: The Rise and Fall of a Symbolic Crusade Movement - Violence, Conspiracies, and New Religions
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country David G. Bromley; Virginia Commonwealth University ; United States
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Religious Studies
 
4. Subject Keyword(s) lost cause movement; civil war; southern culture; confederate identity
 
5. Subject Subject classification New Religions
 
6. Description Abstract New religious groups by their very nature pose some degree of challenge to the social order within which they emerge as they involve alternative ways of imagining and organizing. The sources of contention are some combination of movement provocation and societal control imposition. In a few cases, movement-societal conflict rises to the level of violence, in which each side concludes that peaceful coexistence is impossible. While there has been considerable research on the dynamics of such conflicts, there is less understanding of how movements that have been vanquished in battle with the forces of social control re-form, reorganize, and re-establish themselves. This chapter examines the loosely-coupled Lost Cause Movement following the end of Civil War hostilities. Three primary reconstitution tactics are identified: creation of an alternative social-cultural power base, narrative accounts challenging delegitmating depictions of slavery, and restoration of legitimacy through sacralization of southern culture. These tactics proved to be remarkably successful in repositioning the Confederate states over the next century.
 
7. Publisher Organizing agency, location Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
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9. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 13-Nov-2024
 
10. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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12. Format File format PDF
 
13. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/45187
 
14. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1558/equinox.45187
 
15. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Equinox eBooks Publishing; Violence, Conspiracies, and New Religions
 
16. Language English=en en
 
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