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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Civil Religion"”.
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Civil religion in Britain, 1707 - c.1800
… study examines the development of theories of civil religion in Hanoverian Britain. In the aftermath of the seventeenth-century wars of religion, theorists of civil religion sought to render Protestant Christianity a faith whose ecclesiology was compatible with the civil state and whose …
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Divine Democracy: Examining the Intersection of Religion and Politics in Civil Religion
… build upon and provide a new interpretation of civil religion in the United States. In it, the history of civil religion from the 1960s, starting with Bellah, to the 2010s will be analyzed for any themes still used in the 2020s. Similarly, understanding what a religion is within this time frame …
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American civil religion as a rhetorical device in Ronald Reagan's response to tragedy
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1986 L41
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American civil religion as a rhetorical device in Ronald Reagan's response to tragedy
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1986 L41
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Civil religion and the President: a content analysis of the presidential inaugural addresses
<p>While the existence of a civil religion is widely accepted, there is still debate over it's specific content¹. This study addresses the specific content of civil religion as expressed through the inaugural addresses of the Presidents of the United States, and finds: 1) the general content of …
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'One nation under God': the pledge of allegiance as a ritual practice in American civil religion
… illustrates a neglect in the study of American civil religious ritual. It argues that a primary carrier for American civil religion has been the public school system and that one vehicle used in the task of perpetuating the American identity has been the civil religious ritual of saying the …
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Restart the ‘World’ with Revolutionary Ruptures: Imagining Identity through War & in Crisis – Apocalyptic Rhetoric & the American Civil Religion
… self-understanding include: the American civil religion and the American culture-wars. Crisis compels identification to make sense of unfamiliar events according to one's origin myth; adaptive 'editing' for familiarity permits those in-crisis to shape/eliminate anything that contradicts …
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Consumer holiday structure: an analysis of Christian holiday patterns and consumer ritual practice in America
… consumption, that previously had been defined by civil religious structure and meaning. The re-definition of civil religion as consumer civil religion, and implications for related social theories are discussed.
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From Tsonga to Moçambicanidade: civil religious dynamics in Mozambican nationalism
… tribal and Mozambican national identities are civil religious constructs. They resulted from sacrificial ritual performances, the expropriation of traditions and symbols, and the creation of sacred spaces. Formed as a linguistic, cultural, religious and tribal unity, the Tsonga provided a …
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The Political Character of Adventist Rhetoric Until the End of the Civil War
… from the apocalyptic rhetoric of American "civil religion," which originated in the colonial wars with the French during the eighteenth century. After tracing the formation of Adventist rhetoric from William Miller's preaching of the Second Coming to John N. Andrew's interpretation of the …
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Constituting the un-American atheist: Eisenhower's theistnormativity and the negation of American atheists
During the Cold War, President Eisenhower used civil religion and what Philip Wander calls prophetic dualism to construct an image of the American people. In doing so he excluded atheists from his description of the American citizenry. In order to understand how atheists fit into the national …
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Bridging the Gap between the Reality and the Myth of the American South: Three Authors' Efforts to Recover the Religious South
… on the religious South's progression beyond the civil religion of the Lost Cause. In this examination, I trace the development of the Southern mind from its inception into the Jim Crow South. In doing so, I contend that portions of the religious South became so entranced by their region's …
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Considering Religious Discourse and Debates Concerning American Public Education
… and the specifics of contemporary debates over religion and public education in this country. That there are generalizations which can be made about this discourse cannot negate the very real difficulties that we face in the manifestations of religiously-motivated concerns over public education. …
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"Washington in Golry": Clerical Reflections on the Death of George Washington and the Making of a New Nation
… death as a way of advocating the Christian religion. Throughout the thesis, I reflect on the idea of an American civil religion and the ways in which these eulogies participated in developing some of its tenets.
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From crisis to war: prophetic dualism in President George W. Bush's September 20, 2001 address
… of presidential crisis rhetoric and civil religion (although the artifact does not meet all characteristics of presidential war rhetoric). The study closes with a discussion of practical, rhetorical and methodological implications that may be useful to scholars of rhetoric and …
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The Treasury of Stories: Policy Narratives of Anti-Illicit Finance
… “The American Dream,” and/or “American Civil Religion.” Methodologically, I rely on the recent Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) literature, which emphasizes the importance of narrative elements – setting, plot, characters (i.e., heroes and villains), and moral – in the marketing of …
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Presidential rhetoric in times of crisis: A textual analysis of speeches by franklin roosevelt and ronald reagan
… rhetoric, including the common use of civil religious words and symbols, collective focus and imagery. This study analyzes Roosevelt's and Reagan's speeches for the use of predefined and common rhetorical devices in times of crisis. In the six speeches studied, the analysis indicated …
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Towards a ressourcement of Dwight D. Eisenhower's belief that "our form of government makes no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith"
… 1950s America that came to known as American civil religion. It then turns to a review of the First Amendment jurisprudence developed by the Supreme Court of the United States in the decades following the Eisenhower administration, which essentially introduced novel, ever-evolving tests and …
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The role of Evangelicalism in the formation of nineteenth-century Ulter Protestant cultural identity
… to gauge more accurately the contribution of religion, a multidisciplinary approach was adopted. Insights from anthropology, political science and sociology were used to complement the primary historical approach to the subject. The subject is approached from two angles, focussing initially on …
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"More desired than our owne salvation" : the roots of American Christian affinity for the State of Israel.
… to American popular Christianity and civil religion—through varying degrees of national-covenantalism, premillennial dispensationalism and cultural fundamentalism—claims that American popular affinity for the State of Israel is generated primarily by external manipulations or lobbies …
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