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American Civil Religion in the Era of Trump

Religions, 2023
In 1967, Robert Bellah argued that America’s “founding myth”, what he called American civil religion, helps bind American society together by providing its citizens with a sense of origin, direction, and meaning.
Sean F. Everton
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Pentecostalisation, the American Christian Right, and Civil Religion in Ghana

Religions
Christianity’s political prominence in Ghana has attracted the attention of scholars interested in the wider issues of religion and politics in sub-Saharan Africa.
Jeffrey Haynes
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A Jewish America and a Protestant Civil Religion: Will Herberg, Robert Bellah, and Mid-Twentieth Century American Religion

Religions, 2015
This essay reads Will Herberg’s Protestant-Catholic-Jew alongside Robert Bellah’s “Civil Religion in America” to illuminate how mid-century thinkers constructed, rather than merely observed, a vision of, and for, American religion.
Ronit Y. Stahl
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Civil Religion as Myth, Not History

Religions, 2019
This article draws upon recent historiography to critique the concept of “civil religion”, and argues that it should be replaced by nationalism.
Leilah Danielson
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Why the Covenant Worked: On the Institutional Foundations of the American Civil Religion

Religions, 2019
Scholars of American civil religion (ACR) have paid insufficient attention to the micro-level processes through which civil religious ideas have historically influenced beliefs and behavior.
John W. Compton
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Common Good Constitutionalism vs. America’s Enlightenment Civil Religion [PDF]

Studia Gilsoniana, 2022
In his 2022 volume Common Good Constitutionalism, and in a series of essays and other works prior to the book’s release, Harvard Law School professor Adrian Vermeule advances a new vision for the American republic.
Jason Morgan
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Introduction to the Special Issue of “Studia Gilsoniana” on Revolution and the Enlightenment [PDF]

Studia Gilsoniana, 2022
Paul de Lacvivier This paper aims to highlight how the trial of Louis XVI expresses a complete inversion of the legal principles of Old Christian France, where the authority of the absolute King submits to superior customary and divine laws, against the
Paul de Lacvivier, Jason Morgan
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Between Public Justification and Civil Religion: Shared Values in a Divided Time

Religions, 2023
Civil religion as formulated in Robert Bellah’s seminal 1967 article, recalling Rousseau’s Social Contract, has recently been proposed to build shared values and bridge deep partisan divides. A competing approach to shared values, based on public reason,
Eric V. Morrow, Boleslaw Zbigniew Kabala, Christine Dalton Hartness   +2 more
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La religion civile américaine

Revue du Droit des Religions, 2018
According to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, civil religion can be considered as a political instrument which ensures social cohesion. In the 1960s, the work of the sociologist Robert N.
Candice Bordes
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Agama Sipil di Amerika Serikat: Telaah Terhadap Gagasan dan Peran Robert N. Bellah

Simulacra, 2019
This article will unravel the emergence of civil religion in the United States that cannot be separated from America’s long history, since the civil war, the declaration of independence and the influence of enlightenment and Christian values (especially ...
Ahmad Sahidah
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