Civil Religion and the History of Democratic Modernity: Probing the Limits of the Sacred and the Secular

The aim of this essay is to introduce readers to recent work on the concept of ‘civil religion’, what might be regarded as the democratic variant of political religion. Ever since 1967, when the sociologist Robert Bellah published his article ‘Civil Religion in America’, the concept has been the sub...

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Main Author: Crook, Tom (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2010
In: Religion compass
Year: 2010, Volume: 4, Issue: 6, Pages: 376-387
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