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Robert Bellah’s Concept of Civil Religion in America and the Idea of New Religion in Czech Thinking of the Twentieth Century

American and British Studies Annual, 2012
At the end of the 1960s sociologist Robert Bellah formulated his concept of American civil religion, a concept which has since then provoked considerable reaction among scholars and intellectuals.
Tomáš Bubík
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Koranen som træningsprogram: Et case study af sura 18

Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2016
The article is a case study of a single narrative in the Qur’an’s sura 18. In this article, I explore and discuss the ethical dimensions of the Qur’anic world view. The article takes its point of departure in an outline of the pre-dominant eschatological
Mette Bjerregaard Mortensen
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Family Policies in Low Fertility Countries: Evidence and Reflections

Population and Development Review, Volume 51, Issue 1, Page 125-161, March 2025.
Abstract Family policies, defined as measures designed to support families with children, are part of modern welfare states. They range from punctual measures provided at the birth of a child to measures aimed at making it easier for parents to combine work and family responsibilities.
Anne H. Gauthier, Stuart Gietel‐Basten
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Sivil Din Teorisinin Paradigmatik İnşası: Bellah, Durkheim ve Rousseau Arasında

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Bu çalışma, sivil din olgusunun yalnızca ABD bağlamında ortaya çıkmış özgün bir fenomen olmadığını; tarihsel ve düşünsel kökenlerinin Rousseau ve Durkheim gibi klasik düşünürlere kadar uzandığını ortaya koymaktadır.
Kayhan Bayram
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The Fight to Bear Arms: Challenging the Second Amendment and the U.S. Constitution as a Sacred Text

European Journal of American Studies, 2017
This article examines the manner in which constitutional law in the United States serves to preserve, accentuate and institutionalise what Robert Bellah referred to as the ‘Civil Religion’ of the nation (1967). As the U.S.
John McNamara
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THE POST-MODERN AS NEO-MEDIEVAL: INTERSECTIONS OF RELIGION, NATIONALISM, AND EMPIRE IN MODERNITY AND BEYOND (WITH AN EXCURSUS ON ALBANIAN NATIONALISM)

SEEU Review, 2017
This essay connects Benedict Anderson’s analysis of print capitalism as the enabling feature of modernity for the emergence of nationalism with an account of pre-modern sacral imaginings.
Demjaha Dritëro
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What heritage does and does not do to identity: some answers from an ethnographic perspective

Horizontes Antropológicos, 2005
This paper explores how caretakers of slave-era heritage sites objectify and enact what Robert Bellah and his co-authors call "communities of memory" in a racially polarized United States and how the public interpret their efforts at creating what ...
Eric Gable
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“In God We Trust:” The U.S. National Motto and the Contested Concept of Civil Religion

Religions, 2019
In this essay, “In God We Trust”, the official motto of the United States, is discussed as an illustration of the contested character of American civil religion. Applying and evaluating assumptions from Robert N.
Michael Lienesch
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Helgener over det hele: Polymorf middelalderkristendom i Vor Frue Kirke, Skive

Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2019
English ABSTRACT: Drawing on iconographic material in the form of a decoration of church frescoes from the year 1522 in the medieval parish church Vor Frue Kirke in Skive (in Jutland) this article examines the Christian cult and mythology of saints in ...
Nikolaj Skou Haritopoulos
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Biskoppen og asketen

Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2018
ENGELSK SUMMARY: The sculptures on the altarpiece of Aarhus Cathedral are a good example of 'analogism', an understanding of reality (an 'ontology') that presents an ideal reality as a harmonious order.
Hans J. Lundager Jensen
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