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Religion and the American Civil War.

The Journal of American History, 2000
Religion and the American Civil War. Edited by Randall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, and Charles Reagan Wilson. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv, 422. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 0-19-512129-5; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-19-512128-7.) This book of splendid essays had its beginning in 1994 at a symposium on religion and the Civil War held at
Edward R. Crowther, Randall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, Charles Reagan Wilson   +3 more
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American Civil Religion

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1976
This text examines what has been called America's common faith. The list of contributors includes Robert N. Bellah, Will Herberg, David Little, Charles H. Long, Martin E. Marty, Leo Marx, Sidney E. Mead, Herbert Richardson, W. Lloyd Warner, John F. Wilson, and Donald G. Jones.
Richard L. Means, Russel E. Richey, Donald G. Jones   +2 more
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The Role of Civil Religion in American Society

2010
Richard V Pierard
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"The Constitution" in American Civil Religion

The Supreme Court Review, 1979
This chapter elaborates on the variety of “constitutional faiths.” It discusses the parallels between Protestant and Catholic approaches to Christian doctrine and “protestant” and “catholic” modes of approaching the U.S. Constitution. It argues that there is double message contained within the analogy of the Constitution to a sacred text or the Supreme
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From Cultural Civil Religion To Political Civil Religion: The Transformation Of American Civil Religion

2023
تظهر بعض الأحداث الاجتماعية والسياسية التي تحدث من وقت لآخر في أمريكا أن هناك مشاكل على مستوى الإجماع الاجتماعي. الهدف من هذه الدراسة هو الكشف عن تحول الدين المدني الأمريكي وتناقضاته. في هذا السياق ، فإن موضوع الدراسة هو تغيير الدين المدني الأمريكي في العملية التاريخية.
ÇİÇEK, Ömer, KIVRAK, Ensar
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Religion and the American Civil War

1998
Abstract This volume gathers experts on many aspects of the very large subject of religion and the American Civil War. What I will provide comes from being a generalist, and every generalist is at the mercy of specialists. Yet in our best moments, generalists and specialists both recognize that they benefit from the perspective of the
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American Civil Religion—and Others

Worldview, 1976
A happy result of the Bicentennial can be increased self-knowledge. The danger, however, is that one may focus too exclusively on the United States, thus magnifying out of proportion both our virtues and our faults.Such distortion is evident in the current discussion of American civil religion.
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Civil Religion and Ethnic Americans

Worldview, 1973
My comments on ethnic Americans stem from a particular and specific frame of reference. First, I am a Catholic priest. Indeed, as another sociologist remarked (not intending a compliment): "He's nothing but a loudmouthed Irish priest." (May it be etched on my tombstonel) Still, these are my views, not the or even a "Catholic position." I very much ...
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Religion and American Civil Society

2018
The exercise of faith serves many functions, but its paramount role is to function as the foundation of civil society.
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Toward a Geography of American Civil Religion

Journal of Cultural Geography, 1985
The concept of civil religion has been of considerable interest to students of American culture during recent decades. Little attention has been given, however, to regional variations in the practice of American civil religion. The purpose of this study is to explore basic patterns in the popular observance of the Bicentennial, as one possible approach
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