Article: Ethnic civil religion: a case study of immigrants from Rumania in Israel.

Article: Yehiya to cross over to opposition
Daily Mirror;  November 13, 2008 ;     342 words ... ... Wayamba Provincial Councillor S.A. Yehiya said he had decided to sit with the opposition ... another member left the country leaving Yehiya to be the only SLMC member to sit with ... Minister from the Puttalam district," Mr. Yehiya said. He said he had talks with the SLMC ...

Israeli-Arab suspected murder Adwan Yehiya Farhan, 34, is ...
Getty Images;  May 26, 2009 ;     293 words ... ... JINI Getty Images 05-26-2009 Israeli-Arab suspected murder Adwan Yehiya Farhan, 34, is escorted ... Full Size JPG (1757 KB) Israeli-Arab suspected murder Adwan Yehiya Farhan, 34, is escorted by police officers after a press conference ...

Article: Law, morals, and civil religion in ...
Journal of Church and State;  June 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ...The existence of a civil religion in America is now widely accepted ... still debated, most agree that civil religion is essentially about those public ... stimulated much of the discussion about civil religion with his seminal essay in 1967 ...

Article: RELIGION IN LIFE; Civil religion has a downside
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  June 14, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... with the issue of what is called "civil religion." This is the religion of the "civitas ... classrooms, they are calling for a stronger civil religion. In a pluralistic society, there ... because of their perceived support for civil religion. Why is this? In the first place ...

Article: THAT OLD-TIME CIVIL RELIGION WON'T DISAPPEAR
Roanoke Times & World News;  January 20, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... frustrated. For what is called the "Civil Religion" has been present and active in the ... general program participate in the civil religion in these times. The Roanoke Times ... a perfect expression of America's civil religion. It strikes notes common to both the ...

Article: Civil Religion
Dictionary of American History;      700+ words ...CIVIL RELIGION CIVIL RELIGION, a term popularized by sociologist Robert Bellah, is used to ... the United States. The basic theory maintains that an informal civil religion binds the American people to God. This civil religion fosters ...

Article: In U.S., symbols of a civil religion are ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  October 24, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... patriotism. It is symbol and sign of civil religion, the way that a nation committed to ... influences their private behavior, civil religion is the closest we get to a public shared ... not appropriate public behavior." Civil religion has the kinds of symbols, rituals ...