Sentences with phrase «civil religion came»
For McDougall, the Spanish - American war was the moment when the American civil religion came into its own.
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Durkheim's followers, on the other hand, give little thought to the question of how a civil religion comes to be.
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As and atheist, I am concerned with the influence religion has on the general public, specifically when it comes to women's rights, civil rights, gay rights, and the like.
It was one of Max Weber's great insights that while «every... religion must, in similar measure and for similar reasons experience tension with the sphere of political behavior,» religions differ in how they deal with this tension.108 Innerworldly asceticism has an edge, at least when it comes to the development of a civil religion.
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
Another reason to for Americans to embrace the political wisdom of our Founders in prohibiting the establishment of a civil religion, especially with the challenge of theocratic fundamentalism coming from many Red State Christians.
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.