Civil Religion Today (eBook)

Religion and the American Nation in the Twenty-First Century

Philip Goff, Raymond Haberski Jr., Rhys H. Williams (Herausgeber)

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2021
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-0988-2 (ISBN)

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Moves the discussion of American civil religion into the twenty-first century Civil Religion, a term made popular by sociologist Robert Bellah a little over fifty years ago, describes how people might share in a sacred sense of their nation. While hotly debated, the idea continues to enjoy wide application among academics and journalists. Bellah used civil religion to make sense of the turmoil of the 1960s, especially moral debates provoked by the Vietnam War. Now, a half-century later, American society is again riven by conflict over immigration, economic inequality, racial oppression, and culture wars issues. Is Bellah's hopeful assessment still useful for understanding contemporary America? If not, how should we think of it differently?Civil Religion Today reassesses the term to take stock of its usefulness after fifty years of engagement in the field. Looking both at the concept and at ground-level studies of how we might find civil religion in practice, this book aims to push the conversation forward, considering how and in what ways it is helpful in our current social and political context, evaluating which parts are worth keeping, which can be reformulated, and which can now be usefully discarded. It suggests we go beyond Bellah in theory and practice, thinking about American society in a new century.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.10.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 11 b/w illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: American Religion • American Way of Life • black feminist thought • civic culture • Civic Republicanism • Civil Religion • Civil War • community service • Comparative study of civil religions • critical race theory • Emma Lazurus • Founding Fathers • Generalized Protestantism • Ideology • Immigration • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Judeo-Christian • liberal secularism • military sacrifice • national borders • Patriotism • Plural civil religions • Political culture • politics and religion • Politics of consensus • Post-war America • prophetic religion • Protestantism • Regionalism • religious nationalism • Religious pluralism • Robert Bellah • self-sacrifice • Sports • standpoint theory • Statue of Liberty • transnationalism • Uncle Sam • U.S. Constitution • Violence • Visual Sociology • War Memorials • Whiteness Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-0988-8 / 1479809888
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-0988-2 / 9781479809882