The United States is an empire in decline, as well as a nation under enormous economic duress, and civil religion…
Taking exception to American exceptionalism
civil religion
Fantasies of sovereignty
Montreal [site of the 2009 AAR meetings] was a particularly appropriate site for a return to civil religion. A civic…
Echoes of American civil religion
It is interesting to revisit civil religion discourse in the context of a new time and its discontents, and the…
All used up
There is a question that has been haunting me about our times and our collective condition, specifically in regard to…
Civil religion of a different kind
Very different from the mode of civil religion that I discussed in my previous post are the experiences of religious…
Presidents as saviors
At The Washington Post's On Faith page, Sally Quinn and Jon Meacham ask a series of respondents whether the American…
Civil religion and beyond
Civil religion, on one hand, links the US to the biblical tradition; on the other hand, the moral and political…
The social body of belief
American civil religion has taken several forms. One type is preoccupied with national cohesion, claiming that the bonds by which…
The spaces of American civil religion
Reviewing Kirk Savage's Monument Wars: Washington D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape for Religion Dispatches,…
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…