1690695374     

The Rhetoric of American Civil Religion : Symbols, Sinners, and Saints

Domke, David [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Edwards, Jason A [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Hill, Theon [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Keeley-Jonker, Bethany [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Koch, John P [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Lahr, Angela M [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Langford, Catherine L [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Edwards, Jason A [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Valenzano, Joseph M [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender]

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2016 [©2016]

1 online resource (250 pages)

Englisch

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Erscheint auch als: (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-4985-4149-7

978-1-4985-4148-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

306.60973     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Public history - United States

Public history - United States ; Electronic books

This book examines the rhetoric of the Founding Fathers, activists, presidents, and contemporary actors who play a large role in helping to define American civil religion. It demonstrates how America's civil religion is forged through contestations of its beliefs, rituals, places, events, and myths by different groups and individuals.

---

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Exodus -- Chapter Two: "Glory in the Fight" -- Chapter Three: Civil Religion as Communal Democratic Sentiment -- Chapter Four: Lighting "Human Spirit-Lamps" -- Chapter Five: Billy Graham's Cold War Rhetoric -- Chapter Six: In God (and Capitalism) We Trust -- Chapter Seven: Civil Religion as Christian Religion -- Chapter Eight: Sinners and Saints -- Chapter Nine: Civil Religion or Mere Religion? -- Chapter Ten: Discovering Self in the Absence of Privacy -- Chapter Eleven: Barack Obama and the Expansion of American Civil Religion -- Chapter Twelve: What Binds This Nation Together -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.