“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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2020]
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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
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RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CG Christianity and Politics KBQ North America |
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