At The Washington Post's On Faith page, Sally Quinn and Jon Meacham ask a series of respondents whether the American…
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Civil religion and beyond
Civil religion, on one hand, links the US to the biblical tradition; on the other hand, the moral and political…
Cornel West and David Kyuman Kim on catastrophic politics
In the latest issue of Theory & Event [sub. req.], a conversation between David Kyuman Kim and Cornel West from…
A Neo-Weberian theory of American civil religion
The American civil religion, Robert Bellah argued, was derived from two sources, one religious and the other secular: the covenant…
Obama, Christian realism, and Just War theory
A round-up of some of the recent commentary on President Obama and the ethics of war, following the invocation of…
Obama’s civil religion
At U.S. Intellectual History, Raymond J. Haberski, Jr. appraises Barack Obama's implicit invocations of civil religion in this week's speech on…
Obama and the Dalai Lama
When the Dalai Lama visited Washington, D.C. last week, he didn’t stop at the White House, making this the first…
Religious and sexual freedoms are not opposed
On June 1st, President Barack Obama proclaimed June 2009 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month and called "upon the…
This song is old. But is it true?
Obama calls upon Americans to "give our all to a difficult task" and "carry forth a precious gift" of increasingly…
Teaching for democracy
When Obama intoned, "This is our moment. This is our time...Yes we can," we needed to ask, of course, "yes,…