“Monuments of Folly”: Frederick Douglass, Charlottesville, and the National Religions of America

Heather Heyer’s murder at a 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, which was organized to defend a monument to Robert E. Lee, offers an occasion to reflect on Robert Bellah’s notion of “American civil religion.” Here I seek to reconstruct that concept in terms of “American national religio...

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Main Author: Lê, David (Author)
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Published: Oxford University Press [2020]
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 88, Issue: 3, Pages: 749-778
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Bellah, Robert N. 1927-2013 / USA / Civil religion / Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895 / Whites / Hegemony / Racism
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
CG Christianity and Politics
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