- American civil religion
American civil religion is a term coined by sociologist
Robert Bellah in 1967. The article in which the term is coined, "Civil Religion in America", sparked one of the most controversial debates inUnited States sociology. Soon after the paper was published, the topic became the major focus at religious sociology conferences and numerous articles and books were written on the subject. The debate reached its peak with the American Bicentennial celebration in 1976. p. 125, 130]ee also
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American exceptionalism
*Civil religion
*Ceremonial deism Notes
Further reading
American civil religion
* cite journal
first =Robert Neelly
last =Bellah
authorlink =
coauthors =
year =1967
month =Winter
title =Civil Religion in America
journal =Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
volume =96
issue =1
pages =1–21
id =
url =http://web.archive.org/web/20050306124338/http://www.robertbellah.com/articles_5.htm "From the issue entitled Religion in America."
*cite book
last =Bellah
first =Robert Neelly
authorlink =Robert Neelly Bellah
coauthors =
date =August 15, 1992
title =The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial
publisher =University of Chicago Press
location =
id =ISBN 0-226-04199-9
* cite journal
first =Lee
last =Canipe
authorlink =
coauthors =
year =2003
month =March 22
title =Under God and anti-communist: how the Pledge of Allegiance got religion in Cold-War America
journal =Journal of Church and State
volume =
issue =
pages =
id =
url =http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1:106474489/Under+God+and+anti-communist~C~+how+the+Pledge+of+Allegiance+got+religion+in+Cold-War+America.html?refid=SEO
*cite journal
first =Matthew W
last =Cloud
authorlink =
coauthors =
year =2004
month =March 22
title ="One nation, under God": tolerable acknowledgement of religion or unconstitutional cold war propaganda cloaked in American civil religion?
journal =Journal of Church and State
volume =46
issue =2
pages = 311
id =ISSN 0021-969X
url =http://bailey83221.livejournal.com/94810.html
*cite journal
first =Frederick
last =Edwords
authorlink =Frederick Edwords
coauthors =
year =1987
month =November/December
title =The religious character of American patriotism
journal =The Humanist magazine
volume =
issue =
pages =20–24, 36
id =
url =http://www.holysmoke.org/sdhok/hum12.htm
*cite book
last =Gehrig
first =Gail
authorlink =
coauthors =
month =June | year =1981
title =American Civil Religion: An Assessment
publisher =Society for Scientific Study
location =
id =ISBN 0-932566-02-2
*cite book
last =Hughes
first =Richard T.
authorlink =
coauthors =
date =July 6, 2004
title =Myths America Lives By
publisher =University of Illinois Press
location =
id =ISBN 0-252-07220-0
*cite book
last =Jewett
first =Robert
authorlink =Robert Jewett
coauthors =John Shelton Lawrence
year =
title =Captain America And The Crusade Against Evil: The Dilemma of Zealous Nationalism
publisher =Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
location =
id =ISBN 0-8028-2859-0 "Page 328 specifically talks about American civil religion, referencing Jones's book, American Civil Religion."
*cite book
last =Jones
first =Donald G.
authorlink =
coauthors =Russell E. Richey
date =November 1990 (Original published in 1974 by Harper)
title =American Civil Religion
publisher =Mellen University Press
location =
id =ISBN 0-7734-9997-0
*cite journal
first = James A.
last =Mathisen
authorlink =
coauthors =
year =1989
month =
title =Twenty Years After Bellah: Whatever Happened to American Civil Religion?
journal =Sociological Analysis
volume =50
issue =2
pages =29–46
id =
url =http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=97821251
*cite journal
first = Sanford
last = Levinson
authorlink =
coauthors =
year =1979
month =
title ="The Constitution" in American Civil Religion
journal =The Supreme Court Review
volume = 1979
issue =
pages = 123–151
id =
url = http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0081-9557(1979)1979%3C123%3A%22CIACR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4
* [http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/civilrel.htm Civil Religion entry] , cite book
last = Swatos
first =William H.
authorlink =
coauthors =
year =1998
title =Encyclopedia of Religion and Society
publisher =AltaMira Press
location =
id =ISBN 0-7619-8956-0
*cite book
last =Luckmann
first =Thomas
authorlink =Thomas Luckmann
coauthors =
year =1967
title =The Invisible Religion
publisher =
location =
id = Published the same year as Bellah's article.American exceptionalism
*cite journal
first=Ward
last=Churchill
authorlink=
coauthors=
year=2005
month=Spring
title=The Ghosts of 9-1-1: Reflections on History, Justice and Roosting Chickens
journal=
volume=
issue=
pages =
id=
url=http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=352&page=1
*cite book
first =Seymour Martin
last =Lipset
authorlink =Seymour Martin Lipset
coauthors =
month =April | year =1997
title =American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword
publisher =W. W. Norton & Company
location =
id =ISBN 0-393-31614-9
**cite web
title =Book reviews of: Seymour Martin Lipset's American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword Part 1
work =The Washington Post ,The Weekly Standard ,Foreign Affairs ,The Guardian ,New Statesman & Society , etc
url =http://bailey83221.livejournal.com/45940.html
accessdate=2006-07-16
*Zinn, Howard cite web
title =The Power and the Glory Myths of American exceptionalism
work =bostonreview.net
url =http://bostonreview.net/BR30.3/zinn.html
accessdate=2006-07-16
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