"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's theological and secular views of race from the church's founding in 1845 to the present day. Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause thus interrogates the legacy of St. Paul's self-identified benevolent paternalism on the racial and religious geography of Richmond, and the epilogue reflects on what an authentic process of recognition and reparations might be, drawing useful lessons for White people in America writ large"-- Provided by publisher.