Article: Sound Bites of Civil Religion: Politics, Popular Culture, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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 ...

Article: After civil religion.(Critical essay)
Journal of Markets & Morality;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... of Avery Dulles's paper is clear . As civil religion is eroding, pluralism goes unchecked ... namely, that we should try to strengthen civil religion. I am less positive about civil religion. In this respect I allow for more pluralism ...

Article: From nationalism to internationalism: civil ...
Journal of Church and State;  September 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... concluded his seminal essay of 1967 on "Civil Religion in America" with the hope that, in time ... might be incorporated into American civil religion, or even that American civil religion might become "one part of a new civil ...