Sentences with phrase «civic religion»

An integral part of civic religion, their worship especially involved women and also had more personal, individual aspects.
For him «inter-religious» means dumbing down everybody's beliefs to some bland, sentimental, global civic religion.
By and large, the rites of American civic religion are harmless enough, bland baptisms of the status quo by the application of a bit of liturgy emptied of any real dogmatic significance or personal demands.
As far as the Jews of the United States are concerned, they should promulgate «an indigenous civic religion for the American people that shall act as a unifying influence, uniting all Americans regardless of race, creed or status, without being authoritative or coercive.»
I've always found the mix of civic patriotism and civic religion confusing.
There seems to be a misconception among many American Christians that fighting the good fight of faith means keeping God's name on our money, in our speeches, in our pledge, and on our bumper stickers.But this is the danger of civic religion: it convinces us that God's name is the same as God's presence; it convinces us that we've «won» when we hear the right words, regardless of whether we've seen the right fruit.
By way of sharpest contrast, «the repudiation of the concept of sin was at the heart of Dewey and Whitman's civic religion
Our civic religion, centered on the Constitution, is tainted with superstition.
In Wilson it mingled missionary nationalism with a vision of internationalism, and in the eloquence of Martin Luther King Jr., it found a voice for the revitalization of a civic religion in the context of demands for the renewal of the premises and promises of the ancient covenants.79
For the time being, at least, we must keep it in place as an emotional crutch for the weak and as a civic religion that can bind us together in political community.
As the country becomes more ethnically and religiously diverse, there will be those who say the Church can only survive if we fight to the death to preserve our civic religion — keeping prayer in public schools, keeping the Ten Commandments in courthouses, and keeping mosques out of our neighborhoods.
One answer might be that the constitution is roughly comparable to a civic religion; I've heard it mentioned in those terms.
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