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Civil religion in America
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The words and acts of the founding fathers, especially the first few presidents, shaped the form and tone of the civil religion as it has been maintained ever since. The God of the civil religion is not only rather Unitarian, he is also on the austere side, much more related to order, law, and right than to salvation and love. Until the Civil War, the American civil religion focused above all on the event of the Revolution, which was seen as the final act of the Exodus from the old lands across the waters. Fortunately, since the American civil religion is not the worship of the American nation but an understanding of the American experience in the light of ultimate and universal reality, the reorganization entailed by such a new situation need not disrupt the American civil religion's continuity.
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- Authors
- Bellah, R. N.
- Venue
- Daedalus
- Publisher
- MIT Press - Journals
- Published
- 2005-09
- Volume
- 134
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 40-55
- ISSN
- 0011-5266 (ISSN-L)
- 1548-6192
- OpenAlex
- W1991004172
- Cited by
- 910
- References
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- FWCI
- 135.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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