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Unfortunately, I still cannot see the role of religion in Whites's book to play that big of a role. Honestly, most of the talk about religion came from quotes from diaries, speeches, etc... that would have been common forms of speech and thought then. I didn't notice Whites particularly playing off on the religion aspect. What I did notice was Whites discussing the hardships ex-Confederate men went through after they returned defeated and the attempts and ways they tried to overcome their humiliation and reinstate their masculinity in society. --Ashley Wilkins | Unfortunately, I still cannot see the role of religion in Whites's book to play that big of a role. Honestly, most of the talk about religion came from quotes from diaries, speeches, etc... that would have been common forms of speech and thought then. I didn't notice Whites particularly playing off on the religion aspect. What I did notice was Whites discussing the hardships ex-Confederate men went through after they returned defeated and the attempts and ways they tried to overcome their humiliation and reinstate their masculinity in society. --Ashley Wilkins | ||
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| + | I agree with Mary Beth, and as we talked about on Tuesday, I believe that religion is highlighted as a theme in this book. Going off of what Mary Beth said, I think that religion could have been used as a rationalization for defeat. A means to shift the blame from themselves, ie the confederacy, to God. If everything was divinely inspired, then it could not have been the soldiers’ fault for losing the war. –Andrew B | ||
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