Sentences with phrase «became civil religion»

Mann's erstwhile Calvinism and his belief that education was to reform the world became civil religion as it emerged in the schools, most of all in Mann's insistence upon public schools for all people.

The worst thing that can happen to an authentic spiritual / religious Tradition is for it to become a civil religion.

Christianity in America has become a civil religion.

American Christianity has become a civil religion, the worst thing that can happen to transformational spiritual movement.

Whether called Protestant, middle class, or bourgeois, therefore, the civility that becomes the civil religion is a set of ground rules permitting civil harmony in the midst of political diversity, religious peace in the midst of ecclesiastical pluralism.

There are reasons, in other words, why civility becomes civil religion.

Not exact matches

The real reason Americans view Islam askance is America's foundations refuse to permit ANY religion to become a state religion or replace civil laws.

But when the subject of civil religion became a minor academic industry, I became increasingly concerned, as conferences, panels and symposia on the subject proliferated, that the whole issue was bogging down into arguments over definition and that substance was being overlooked.

In the face of a growing religious right - wing backlash against civil rights movements, reactionary Christians and radical feminists alike have advocated a choice: either accept Christian teaching or become liberated and leave the bondage of patriarchal religion behind.

The civil religion to which we so blithely pay homage has, however, become deeply divided.

It only becomes a problem when your religion tries to encode their opinions into civil law.

However, the doctrine that humans as rational and / or spiritual beings «have ends and loyalties beyond the state», community and nation to which they belong, became part of the «civil religion» or civil culture, which gave moral reinforcement to this whole process of democratization and secularization.

«Our country should be preserved from the dreadful evil of becoming enemies to the religion of the Gospel, which I have no doubt, but would be the introduction of the dissolution of government and the bonds of civil society.»

Christianity became the «civil religion» of the Empire.

It is less common to consider the way Protestant civil religion has become a domesticated religion of the white middle - class.

The crowning irony of this irony - filled era Marty effectively saves for the book's climax: this age filled with ecumenical rhetoric was also a great age of civil religion; hence with World War I, warfare became the great ecumenical event.

Instead, somewhat like Pope John Paul, Lincoln demanded that the principles of equality and liberty, the moral truths of human dignity which form the Constitution's foundations, become the «civil religion» of every citizen.

Evangelical Christianity in America has become the «civil» religion of America and has been so watered - down and conformed to society to become «relevant» that it has become «irrelevant» to everyone — it is salt that has lost it's saltiness.

There just be a chance for a better chance of tempering «justice» with mercy in this Nation where «Christianity» [actually churchianity] has become the de facto civil religion.

They are seeking what has been called post-modern paradigms for «an open secular democratic culture» within the framework of a public philosophy (Walter Lippman) or Civil Religion (Robert Bellah) or a new genuine realistic humanism or at least a body of insights about the nature of being and becoming human, evolved through dialogue among renascent religions, secularist ideologies including the philosophies of the tragic dimension of existence and disciplines of social and human sciences which have opened themselves to each other in the context of their common sense of historical responsibility and common human destiny.

Procedure takes precedence over substantive precepts and standards, not because procedures are uniquely required in plural societies — all societies require procedures — but because the rhetoric of procedure is required to justify outcomes between parties whose erstwhile religions are different.47 The rhetoric of procedure thus becomes the new common or civil religion.

With the «opening to the left,» itself made possible by that incipient differentiation of the party and the church in the early 1960s, the possibility of an autonomous liberal civil religion became more real.

In dealing with the religious dimension of American political life I borrowed the notion of «civil religion» from Rousseau and showed the extent to which a rather articulated set of religious beliefs and practices had grown up in the American polity that was independent from though not necessarily hostile to the various church religions that flourish in America.9 In applying the notion to Italy it becomes important to realize that all five religions are civil religions.

Here is the argument locating this chapter in the context outlined in the opening paragraphs: The legal order in some significant measure becomes a substitute for the religious order — the order that supplies meaning — and thus sets the stage for the emergence of civil religion.

Indeed, through the pressure of such groups as the American Civil Liberty Union, philosophical liberalism is rapidly becoming our orthodox civil religion, if I may indulge in a contradiction in terms, and traditional American views of the relation of religion and society are declared unconstitutiCivil Liberty Union, philosophical liberalism is rapidly becoming our orthodox civil religion, if I may indulge in a contradiction in terms, and traditional American views of the relation of religion and society are declared unconstituticivil religion, if I may indulge in a contradiction in terms, and traditional American views of the relation of religion and society are declared unconstitutional.

It is a point, moreover, where civil religion and civility become much the same thing.2 I do not feel comfortable with the student's question of whether I am a Christian because the claims I make in the name of Christianity, while real, are nevertheless importantly limited.

Instead that overarching ideology, the civil religion, has become exhausted.

If the civil religion — its symbols, rituals, and tenets — are captured by those in power and invoked on behalf of present arrangements, it becomes all the more difficult to advocate change in the name of civil religion.

The autonomous person, liberated from the constraints of the past and free perhaps even from the stigma of social disapproval of his chosen lifestyle, has become the new god of the Canadian civil religion, almost totally eclipsing whatever communitarian elements have managed to survive the cultural shifts of recent decades.

The Abrahamic religions spread by the sword during the Middle Ages (the «dark» ages) and the colonial era, and by psychological coercion (evangelism) since force became outlawed by a more civil society.