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| | Sociology of religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Sociologists of religion attempt to explain the effects that society has on religion and the effects that religion has on society; in other words, their dialectical relationship. | | | The criticism of religion is therefore in embryo the criticism of the vale of tears, the halo of which is religion." | | | Thus later sociologists of religion (notably Robert Bellah) have extended Durkheimian insights to talk about notions of civil religion, or the religion of a state. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology_of_religion
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| | Civil Religion |
| | Civil religion is a cosmopolitan faith that is unifying, tolerant, and provides a banner under which all of us can pray. | | | Civil religion is not a state religion, but rather an expression that religionizes national values, national heroes, national history, and national ideals. | | | Bellah suggested that Kennedy was doing exactly what his predecessors had done—referring to the unifying god of American civil religion, not any specific narrow denominational god or even the god organized religion like the Christian god, or Roman Catholic understanding of God. |
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http://www.indwes.edu/tuesday/1civil.htm
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| | Civil Religion |
| | Civil religion as a concept is mentioned in the writings of Rousseau which he associated with the religion that predominated during the French Revolution, a time when the Catholic religion lost its control over the day to day life of the state and on the laws that had prevailed in France. | | | As a matter of principle then, civil religion does not disapprove the existence of a Theistic religion within its borders, neither does it automatically seek to disenfranchise Theistic religions of their political status, nonetheless civil religion does have a strong tendency to seek exclusivity in the political realm. | | | Religion is the most organised and sophisticated form of the Totem institution- and it should be added-the Totem institution predates the institution of idol worship, from which Theistic religion originated. |
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http://www.whyreligion.com/titles/c13.htm
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| | Israeli Civil Religion |
| | They practice one or another theistic religion in their homes and are members of the Israeli civil religion outside their homes, in the political lives they lead and in their relationship to the State. | | | Members of this new religion or sect will be entitled to the same budgets that are presently given to synagogues, churches, mosques and religious educational institutions. | | | civil religion's) government.American public state institutions are this religion's institutions in the same way as institutions connected with the Catholic Church including the pope and the Catholic administrative headquarters in Rome are considered the institutions of all Catholics worldwide. |
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http://www.whyreligion.com/titles/i28.htm
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| | William Imboden Article |
| | Civil religion, at its most pernicious, is idolatry. | | | Civil religion is inseparable from history, particularly because it often bases itself on a distinctive view of the past. | | | Civil religion instead often holds that God’s people are those who dwell in a particular nation-state and faithfully uphold their civic duties. |
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http://www.modernreformation.org/wi04onecheer.htm
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| | Journal of Church and State - Winter 1997 |
| | Civil religion's prayers are not the prayers of any particular community of faith. | | | Civil religion is independent of the church because its conception of God is unique and does not follow the doctrine of any particular religious group. | | | While it would be correct, then, to say that Jefferson had a civil religion, it would not be correct to say that he advocated it as the religion that should be adhered to by everyone or that it represented the kind of religion envisioned to be protected by the religion clauses. |
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http://www3.baylor.edu/Church_State/Journ98W.html
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| | Civil Religion in America (Title Page) |
| | Civil religion is an often unstudied and unacknowledged topic. | | | Civil religion is more easily understood though its direct expression than a dictionary-type definition. | | | Some call it civil religion; some explain it in the terms of a "social contract"; some call it a "creed"; others say there's no such thing as any of it. |
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http://www.facsnet.org/issues/faith/sherrill_indy.php
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| | American Civil Religion (Page 1) |
| | Civil religion goes by many different monikers: civic faith, public piety, republican religion (small "r"). | | | "Civil religion adds to the idea [of patriotism] that the governing authority and civil order are sanctified in some way with spiritual or religious significance," Sherrill said. | | | Civil religion does involve patriotism - when it is taken to mean the love and commitment to one's country. |
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http://www.facsnet.org/issues/faith/civil_religion1.htm
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| | Issues in Brief - Religion and Civil Society |
| | The religion clauses of the First Amendment--"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"--are intended to safeguard religious liberty. | | | The practice of religion is good for individuals, families, states, and the nation. | | | The Constitution's prohibition against an establishment of religion does not imply that religion should be barred from political or civic life. |
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http://www.heritage.org/Research/Features/Issues2004/Religion.cfm
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| | Clarifying Civil Religion (Lecture 4) |
| | There is a tradition of religion in our public life, which I described and called civil religion, that does assert—and the central texts of that tra-dition do assert—both the higher authority of God over the nation and the fact that the nation is not absolute. | | | Inevitably, civil religion was understood by many people to mean the idolatrous worship of the state…. | | | So the churches have often contributed to a kind of debased form of civil religion. |
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http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~sporter/civilreligion.html
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| | american civil religion |
| | It was "the religion of the republic," a vague but complex public myth whose symbolism was rooted explicitly in the biblical tradition-derivative of all biblical faiths but embodying none in particular-that served to legitimate national life. | | | We are, our civil religion assures us, a God-fearing people, the Champions of religions liberty, and in many ways a nation that God has chosen to carry out a special mission in the world. | | | The liberal version of American civil religion, it should be noted, taps into a relatively deep reservoir of sentiment in the popular culture about the desirability of peace and justice. |
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http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed253a/american_civil_religion.html
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| | Intellectual Capital: Michael McGough / Catholicizing civil religion |
| | "Civil religion" -- also known as "civic religion" or "ceremonial deism" -- figured prominently in the debate that swirled around a California atheist's challenge to the constitutionality of "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance recited in his daughter's public school classroom. | | | One of the most provocative sessions at the seminar was devoted to the meaning of "civil religion" in today's religiously diverse America. | | | Souter could just as easily have used the term "civil religion," which was defined by the sociologist Robert N. Bellah in an influential 1967 essay as "a genuine apprehension of universal and transcendent religious reality as seen in or, one could almost say, as revealed through the experience of the American people." |
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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04271/385931.stm
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| | Randall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, and Charles Reagan Wilson, eds., Religion and the American Civil War. Reviewed by ... |
| | Southern history from the antebellum period to the present, Stout and Grasso make the arresting and plausible argument that it was during the Civil War that Southern religion changed from the “hard-headed civil religion of ‘Christian Sparta’” to the “heart-centered conversionist religion of evangelicalism. | | | Stout and Grasso demonstrate that religion constituted “the only terms out of which a national identity could be constructed and a violent war pursued.” (318-9) Religion, in other words, was not merely a rationalization, not merely ideology, but the very core of the Confederate nation. | | | But if religion lies at the heart of everything from despair to exultation, from faith to doubt, from slavery to freedom, a sense of proportion may be hard to find. |
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http://jsr.as.wvu.edu/ayers.htm
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| | Jefferson on Politics & Government: Freedom of Religion |
| | "The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind." --Thomas Jefferson to Moses Robinson, 1801. | | | All men shall be free to profess and by argument to maintain their opinions in matters of religion, and... | | | Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. |
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http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff1650.htm
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| | TKR Spring 1999 - American Civil Religion |
| | He went on to argue that establishment of religion would violate the liberties of citizens; unbalance the equality among them; make civil magistrates judges of religious truth, which they are not competent to judge; corrupt the churches themselves; and jeopardize the multiculturalism that is fundamental to the American adventure. | | | The "civic religion" of the Athenian Stranger differs from American "civil religion" in a crucial respect. | | | Madison argued that religion can serve the state only if the state does not control it, and that the individual's religious freedom is a natural right. |
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http://www.pbk.org/pubs/Keyreporter/Spring99/Rouner3.htm
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| | Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Revisiting Civil Religion* |
| | Wherever religion is fervently embraced, it follows in the minds of many believers that it is entitled to glory in missions of conquest that reflect God's will. | | | This is true both for religions that aggressively kill the Other in the name of a deity or deities and those that pledge their devotees to self-sacrifice when confronted with violence. | | | And though religions have long survived and flourished in persecution and powerlessness, supplicants nevertheless take manifestations of power as blessed evidence of the truth of faith. |
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http://www.asc.upenn.edu/USR/fcm/jaar.htm
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| | Civil Religion and Political Theology |
| | Though careful to distinguish it from religion, civil or otherwise, Neuhaus clearly affirms the need for this public philosophy to be attuned to the religious character of the American people. | | | The historical pitfalls which have attended the mixing of religion and politics is one of the reasons why many have sought a language for the public square that transcends religious categories. | | | As John Wilson’s essay perceptively points out, however, this American civil religion far from being truly pluralistic was as a matter of fact nurtured by a Protestant consensus which served as a de facto common religion. |
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http://www.acton.org/publicat/randl/review.php?id=162
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| | Sociology of Religion: Global civil religion: A European perspective |
| | The paramount role of the state church in the evolution of European history is recognized by scholars of all disciplines, not least by sociologists of religion. | | | Incidental to this, but crucial to the argument, is the non-existence of forms of religion in Europe (not least a New Christian Right) which challenge the assumptions of the status quo. | | | A further preliminary is, however, important before turning to the central arguments of this article; it echoes very immediately the discussion of the term 'global civil religion' in the Plenary Session of the Association for the Sociology of Religion from which these papers emerge, more especially the contribution of George Thomas. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SOR/is_4_62/ai_82477976
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| | Our Civil Religion |
| | I remind our detractors that we are all bound by our “civil religion” by which I mean not only the principles (deist that they are) which we live by but also by the fact that we are all religious. | | | While each of us has our own “religion” it is not the same religion. | | | Jefferson believed that democracy could instill greatness, not because it was rooted in religion but because its freedom allowed us to choose the possibility of religion as one among many guiding forces in our lives. |
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http://www.uuloudoun.org/OurCivilReligion.html
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| | American Civil Religion and Jews |
| | Islam, that great religion of peace, has had nothing to say a postscript to his | | | civil rights recieving end.Being Jewish has nothing do to with religion. | | | religion, literature, etc religious pluralism, safeguarding civil and human |
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http://www.aish.com/articles/jews/american-civil-religion-and-jews.asp
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| | The Heritage Foundation: Religion |
| | The Heritage Foundation's research on religion is aimed at understanding faith's role in today's policy debates. | | | Why Religion Matters: The Impact of Religious Practice on Social Stability | | | William E. Simon Fellow for Religion in a Free Society |
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http://www.heritage.org/Research/Religion/index.cfm
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| | African American Religion, Pt. II: From the Civil War to the Great Migration, 1865-1920, The Nineteenth Century, ... |
| | Southern blacks, most of whom had been forbidden from learning to read, saw religion as a matter of oral tradition and immediate experience and emotion. | | | II: From the Civil War to the Great Migration, 1865-1920, The Nineteenth Century, Divining America: Religion and the National Culture | | | Northerners, however, stressed that one could not truly be Christian unless one was able to read the Bible and understand the creeds and written literature that accompanied a more textually-oriented religious system. |
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http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/aarcwgm.htm
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| | Religion and the American Revolution |
| | This material was prepared for Religion Online by Ted and Winnie Brock. | | | Religion and the American Revolution by Jerald C. Brauer (ed.) |
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http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=1657&C=1653
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| | FindLaw: Legal Subjects: Civil Rights: Religion |
| | Ontario Consultants on Relgious Tolerance Descriptions of major religions, spirituality and religious tolerance. | | | FindLaw > Practice Areas > Civil Rights > Religion | | | Journal of Law and Religion Order and subscription information, table of contents for past issues and related sites. |
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http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/36civil/religion.html
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