- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Lost cause religion
- Creator:
- Williams, David S.
- Date of Original:
- 2005-05-15
- Subject:
- Memorialization--Georgia
War memorials--Georgia
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about the lost cause religion. Near the end of the Civil War (1861-65), women from Columbus began to care for soldiers' graves. One of them, Lizzie Rutherford, proposed an annual observance to decorate graves, inaugurating Confederate Memorial Day. Thirty years later one of the Columbus women compared their work to that of Mary Magdalene and the other women who came to Christ's grave. This seems overblown, but is really apt, for what the women in Columbus were engaged in was no less than a new form of southern religion. Historians refer to this as Lost Cause Religion, which was interdenominational and functioned as a culture religion.
GSE identifier: SS8H6 - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/lost-cause-religion/
- Language:
- eng
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- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
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