This video is an excerpt of a lecture by Jürgen Habermas, delievered at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and…
Jürgen Habermas on myth and ritual
civil religion
Philosophy of religion in the public sphere
Ars Disputandi has recently published a collection of essays from the 2010 Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of…
Nothing is ever lost: An interview with Robert Bellah
Both an influential scholar and a public intellectual, Robert Bellah is one of the foremost sociologists of his generation. His…
Rhetoric and authority
At Notes from the Social Field, Ernesto Castañeda reflects on President Obama's rhetorical performance in the aftermath of the shootings in…
Native American civil religion?
Lee Gilmore reflects on the opening blessing at Obama's Tucson speech last week by Carlos Gonzales, who identified himself as…
Holy ground zero?
More than nine years (and a few weeks) have now passed since the events of 9/11, and as Religion in…
Civil earth religion versus religious nationalism
My contribution to these discussions seeks to expand the analytical horizon of the foregoing discussion of civil religion both chronologically…
Education and American civil religion
Education Review, an open-access online journal, reviews the recently published Public Education, America's Civil Religion: A Social History (Teachers College Press, 2009)…
Confronting the mythical beast
The notion of “American civil religion” reminds me of the legendary vampire. It has a seemingly irresistible tendency to take…
Religion and the civic imagination
Since the publication of Robert Bellah’s 1967 article “Civil Religion in America,” discussions of the topic have tended to devolve…