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Building the Nation: The Success and Crisis of Korean Civil Religion
Religions, 2021 Civil religion refers to a country’s beliefs, symbols, and rituals that bolster national unity and strengthen its citizens’ sense of identity and belonging.
Andrew Eungi Kim, Daniel Connolly
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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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The Relevance of the Concept of Civil Religion from a (West) German Perspective
Religions, 2019 The paper argues for the continued importance and usefulness of the term “civil religion” in light of the (West) German discussion and the situation in Europe. For non-Americans, and especially for Germans for whom terms like “political
Jana Weiss, Heike Bungert
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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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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 +2 more
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Religions, 2023 Civil religion encompasses the implicit religious values of a nation manifested through public rituals, symbols, and ceremonies at significant locations and on special occasions.
Ömer F. Gürlesin
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JSW (Jurnal Sosiologi Walisongo), 2018 Indonesia is a democracy. Therefore the government must encourage and guarantee freedom of speech, religion, opinion, an association for every citizen.
Mochamad Parmudi
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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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Bangabandhu as the eternal sovereign: on the construction of a civil religion
Religion, 2022 The omnipresence of his name and portrait in Bangladesh suggests that Father-of-the-nation Sheikh Mujibur Rahman – known as Bangabandhu – is more than just a national hero.
A. E. Ruud
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Predicting civil religion at a cross-cultural level [PDF]
Psihologija, 2009 The concept of civil religion has caught major attention among scholars studying the junction of religion and politics (J.-J. Rousseau, E. Durkheim, R. Bellah).
Lavrič Miran, Flere Sergej
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