Sentences with phrase «for civil religion»

Dr. Hammond expresses a need to revitalize concern for civil religion, for the despair in the present it holds out hope for the future by renewing an understand of the past.

Representative spokesmen for the civil religion have tended to be selected from the ranks of politicians, particularly American presidents.

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

The writings of one of the nations most prominent journalists, James Reston, demonstrate that he has been a consistent and influential spokesman for civil 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.

Not exact matches

In Panama, you're guaranteed social freedom, individual freedom, freedom of religion... in fact, Freedom House, an independent organization that issues an annual «Freedom in the World» report, gives Panama high marks for civil rights, rating it one of the freest nations in Latin America.

For McDougall, the Spanish - American war was the moment when the American civil religion came into its own.

Presidential oratory provides much of the supporting evidence for McDougall's ideas about civil religion, from President William McKinley's implication that the United States had not so much conquered Cubans as it had ministered to them («Are we not made better for the effort and sacrifice, and are not those we serve lifted up and blessed?»)

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.

Making specific exemptions for specific religions is fun at first, but at the end of the day, just cough over the dues for a (somewhat) healthy and (somewhat) civil society like the rest of us.

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

Religion News Service: Obama extols a biblical vision of equality for all in second inaugural A presidential inauguration is by tradition the grandest ritual of America's civil religion, but President Obama took the oath of office on Monday (Jan. 21) in a ceremony that was explicit in joining theology to the nation's destiny and setting out a biblical vision of equality that includes race, gender, class, and, most controversially, sexual orientation.

It was the Universal opinion of the Century preceding the last, that Civil Govt could not stand without the prop of a Religious establishment, & that the Xn religion itself, would perish if not supported by a legal provision for its Clergy.

Homebrew laws have failed to materialize for the past five years, with religion and morality arguments narrowly beating out the estimated 5,000 underground homebrewers in the state who say their civil liberties are on the line.

If we can see the connection between general civil religion and virtue defined as concern for the common good, we can begin to see the connections between general civil religion and special civil religion, for special civil religion defines the norms in terms of which the common good is conceived.

To put it — for the sake of argument — a bit too simply: there have been behind the civil religion from the beginning two great structures of interpretation, the one I shall call biblical, the other utilitarian.

Butler shows how in the early national period, as the line of distinction between religion and the civil authorities («separation of church and state») developed and the citizenry relied ever less on the government for things spiritual or ecclesiastical, church life prospered.

Fundamentalist Islam is at war with the West and its values of intellectual and civil freedom and democracy — and it actually takes advantage of those liberties to advance its Jihad «holy war» by using tax breaks for religions to erect edifices or get subsidies for large Muslim families that are used to sway Western democracies, and, yes, suing for the right even to build a fundamentalist mosque at Ground Zero.

Roger Williams, for example, for all his insistence on the separation of church and state, believed that such general religion was essential for what he called «government and order in families, towns, etc.» Such general religion is, he believed, «written in the hearts of all mankind, yea, even in pagans,» and consists in belief in God, in the afterlife, and in divine punishments.2 Benjamin Franklin for all his differences from Roger Williams believed essentially the same thing, as indicated in the quotation from his autobiography in my original article on civil religion.

To call for religious warfare, as some of them do, is to recall the religious wars of earlier centuries that unraveled civil society and led thoughtful people to the conclusion that religion in public is inescapably divisive and destructive.

God is not on America's side; Christians who think so are seriously mistaken, for they confuse civil religion with true Christianity.

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.

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

Under these circumstances, both versions of American civil religion have found proponents within the state who have been willing to exploit them for purely political purposes.

He finds current expressions of both to be internally divisive as well as at odds with each other, usually based on a conservative / liberal split that weakens the effectiveness of both «civil religions,» and leaves the way open for secular ideologies including material success, radical individual freedom, and an amoral pragmatism.

In addition, Berns largely ignores the practice of the founding generation, which accommodated a far more public role for the free exercise of religion than the American Civil Liberties Union now tolerates.

If you don't yet see it, go read up on the English Civil Wars where the powerful vied for control based on religion: the Protestants tortured the Catholics (and vice versa) for generations...

As far as living separately from Christians, I do not see a reason for that - however, I wish that they would just get religion out of civil society where it does not belong.

In this view two currents of thought, staffed for the most part by two groups of people, dominated the formative years of the American civil religion.

For these twin problems Rousseau offers a single solution: civil religion.

In this sense the common explanation for America's civil religion — that it arose out of Puritan and other ideas — is not incorrect but only incomplete.

«2 In other words, civil religion is a social phenomenon; sacred citizenship for Robinson Crusoe is not possible.

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.

I have mentioned the Athaeneum of intellectuals and educators who gathered around Justo Sierra in the late nineteenth century and, inspired partly by Spencer and others, tried to create a civil religion for Mexico.

Here then is a second and less obvious explanation for America's capacity to generate a civil religion — the opportunity and inclination of its government agencies to use religious symbols.

On the basis of the foregoing analysis of Mexico and the United States, perhaps this explanation can be offered: Civil religion depends for its existence upon circumstances allowing persons and institutions to be «religious» and «political» at the same time.

Rousseau seems to suggest the most fully developed civil religion relies exclusively on neither the church nor the state but to a significant degree at least counts on independent vehicles for its support.

In the book's final part, he discusses several means for «strengthening the constitution of the State,» and it is in this context he introduces the notion of civil religion, an aid in governing.

Republican religion did much to lay the historical groundwork for the tradition of religious liberty and limited separation of church and state, as it did to nurture creative minorities like the abolitionists, social gospelers, and civil - rights protesters.

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.

In regards to the use of force Ben Franklin said, «When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, â $ ˜tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

If morality as proclaimed by various religions is denied a place at the policy table, then our nation will only be guided by those with a very cramped and limited moral view — which would have been a disaster for abolition and civil rights way back then — and would be no less a disaster today.

Robert Bellah has demonstrated how even a supposedly secular nation manifests a civil religion that provides for most American communities a powerful amalgam of Christian and patriotic images and values.13

Most do not realize that the battle for the hearts and minds of church members is being waged against the power of a civil religion that forms the life commitments of most church members.

tradition hard to break.the tradition of marriage is older and more meaningful than any other we know it crosses all religions and non religions, and races and cultures.it won't change easy.calling it something else for some people may make it easier to change.but what about those people who want that time tested tradition for themselves for their own self worth.it is a civil right give it to them today.this issues has divided my community as much as any other, but as we have fought to gain right after right, we have lost sight that all deserve the right of freedom of happiness.No gayness here, just can't fight the battle to keep someone down after being held down

Undaunted, the supposed guardians of civil liberties — except the free exercise of religion, it seems — recently brought a case against a Catholic hospital for refusing to permit doctors to perform an elective hysterectomy as part of a sex - reassignment surgery.

For almost two decades we have known, as the study puts it, that «general television is, in many ways, the common mass ritual of American civil religion.»

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.

The emerging mainline had built a Protestant coalition around acquired cultural capital and the alignment of interests in promoting a civil religion for the sake of the nation.

When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, «tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.