Preface to the 2009 edition: The Lost Cause and the civil religion in recent historiography -- Introduction: Origin and overview -- Sacred southern ceremonies : ritual of the Lost Cause -- Crusading Christian confederates : religious myth of the Lost Cause -- Abiding children of pride : theology of the Lost Cause -- A Southern Jeremiad : Lost Cause critique of the New South -- Morality and mysticism : race and the lost cause -- J. William Jones : evangelist of the Lost Cause -- Schooled in tradition : a Lost Cause education -- A harvest of heroes : reconciliation and vindication
