Sentences with phrase «civil religion also»

Under these circumstances the distance between this theology and a civil religion also appears great.

Conservative civil religion also voices strong arguments about the propriety of the American economic system.

Other spokespersons for conservative civil religion also connect Christian doctrines to American capitalism.

Not exact matches

Frohnen, Kimball, and others are also concerned about the communitarians» instrumental approach to «civil religion.»

This also does not account for other recent wars such as WWII, WWI, Vietnam, Korea, U.S. Civil War, etc., though arguably religion played a significant role in affecting people's opinions about going to war.

Madison's implicit assumption, and that of the entire tradition of religious toleration until the last few decades, however, was that religious diversity and conflict would involve competing sects that differ on some important questions of doctrine and practice but nonetheless share in common a basic Judeo - Christian orientation that is also, in very broad terms, our society's implicit civil religion.

The meaning of every key term in the civil religion — certainly liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but also equality and even life — differs in those two perspectives.18

But in taking the term «civil religion» from Rousseau's Social Contract I was also bringing in a much more general concept, common in America in the eighteenth century but by no means specifically American.

It is also of importance to Muslims and people of other religions and of none, as we think about the future of an American experience in which civil tolerance and religious devotion are not enemies but allies.

Because conscience is present in every individual and corresponds so nicely to the contents of civil religion (i.e., Deism), the role of organized religion (read, the Catholic Church) is thought to be not only unnecessary for but also the enemy of Democratic society.

The mere fact that this law is applicable also to Jams, Buddhists and Sikhs clearly shows that from the beginning it should have been called Civil Code rather than Hindu Code» He adds, that it is not based on any Hindu Scriptures but on «modern concepts and progressive values and is applicable to all citizens irrespective of religion».

It would be more accurate to say certain ideas found institutional roots in the Protestant soil of America that they did not find in Catholic Mexico, and these institutions — not just the ideas — were also necessary for a civil religion.

these agencies have also played a critical role in the development of American civil religion.

Biased in favor of one or another ecclesiastic outlook at times, this civil religion can also at times be biased on behalf of the political status quo.

It is not enough that religion attend to the civil; the civil must also attend to the religious.

Wouldn't «a leader that puts the ideals of science and civil society above those of ancient and antiquated religions» also not claim to be Christian, when he isn't.

This answer also makes me the most happy, not that we haven't had other non-christian presidents before (Thomas Jefferson comes to mind) but Obama is the first is a long time and as an Agnostic myself I am proud to have a leader that puts the ideals of science and civil society above those of ancient and antiquated religions

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.

Moreover the preacher and the congregation do this in the midst of many other acts of mediation in which they also participate, as they attend to civil religion, propaganda, ideology, and mass media.

That is, civil religion not only reflects our past and serves (as Durkheim might have argued) to promote domestic cohesion but also serves to differentiate us from our competitors and buttress our identity within the wider global culture.

It seems likely, then, that American journalism has also provided its spokesmen for the civil religion.

The «chosen people» or «God's new Israel» symbolism that was pretty well eliminated from the formal civil religion was common in the public theology, though it also had its critics.

Having said that, I must also say American civil religion is formal and in a sense marginal, though very securely institutionalized.

Labour gave with one hand, praising the role of faith groups in civil society and extending faith involvement in schools, while also coming to blows over adoption agencies and Alistair Campbell's infamous avoidance of religion.

If you are comfortable with it, you may also include your date of birth, ethnicity, civil status, and religion.

Employers also must be concerned about Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulations, which provide that obtaining criminal records inconsistently, whether based on the race, color, religion, national origin or sex of the applicant, is unlawful under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.