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Article: From nationalism to internationalism: civil religion and the festival of Saint Catherine of Siena, 1940-2003.
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- Journal of Church and State
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- September 22, 2004
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INTRODUCTION
Despite the fact that Robert Bellah concluded his seminal essay of 1967 on "Civil Religion in America" with the hope that, in time a "vital international symbolism" might be incorporated into American civil religion, or even that American civil religion might become "one part of a new civil religion of the world," it is nevertheless still sometimes assumed that "civil religion" will tend to promote the celebration of narrowly national and even militaristic interests. Thus, for example, Stjepan Mestrovic has asserted that civil religion is neither "bona fide religion nor ordinary patriotism, but a new alloy formed by blending religion with ...
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