Sentences with phrase «into civil religion»

It was into this civil religion that the schools socialized their students.

The clearest and probably the purest expression of the ethical dynamism I have located in the realm of the public theology broke through at one crucial moment in our history into the civil religion itself in the person of our greatest, perhaps our only, civil theologian, Abraham Lincoln.

In the Second Inaugural Address Lincoln incorporated biblical symbolism more centrally into the civil religion than had ever been done before or would ever be done again in his great somber tragic vision of an unfaithful nation in need above all of charity and justice.

Given such an overwhelmingly monolithic and continuing religious heritage and given such an intense national experience, has Mexico blended them into a civil religion?

As Bellah noted in his initial essay on the subject, civil religion in America seems to function best when it apprehends «transcendent religious reality... as revealed through the experience of the American people»; yet the growing interdependence of America with the world order appears to «necessitate the incorporation of vital international symbolism into our civil religion» (Beyond Belief [Harper & Row, 1970], pp. 179, 186).

Because, according to Don Paolo, Christmas is now «a fairy tale from the nativity scene with lullabies and bagpipes, the exclusive support of a capitalist and consumerist economy, transforming the whole of Christianity into civil religion.»

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

It was the energy of James K. Polk in the mid-1840s that put the presidency at the core of foreign policy, and thus turned the president into a promulgator and priest of the American civil religion.

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.

The National Prayer Breakfast, now in its fiftieth year, has been mainly a Protestant affair, with more recent overlappings into the interreligious and generalized civil religion.

The author believes that contemporary expressions of civil religion in churches and politics mark a new departure into apostasy, corrupting the more legitimate subordination of politics to religion that typified earlier periods in American history.

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

I'm trying to determine what is sillier: the restaurants sorry attempt to promote religion or the FFRFs trying to make it into a civil rights issue, unless certain details were left out like they had to utter a specific prayer.

The church often supports oppressive political and military regimes, thus turning Christ's suffering into a destructive reality, a civil religion supportive only of the rich and powerful.

They function more like the civil religion of the state churches of Europe, insofar as members are usually born into the church.

We don't want your religion or any other being forced into our civil discourse and our private lives.

I find civil religion motifs in Reston's focus on «the American Dream,» in his belief that the precepts of the Republic's founding documents were political affirmations of certain religious concepts, in his belief in America's unique moral role in world affairs — and in his concern for injecting morality into public - policy discussions.

In short, religion has been pushed increasingly into the realm of what Habermas calls «civil privatism.»

And if extreme secularism is the desire to keep religions from trying to codify their beliefs into civil law, then so be it.

The goal is to create a Public Philosophy or Civil Culture, in which insights of religions, secular ideologies and social sciences are constantly brought into interaction and are tested for their relevance to humanize the contemporary forces of modernity which have run amok.

The Japanese case discussed in Chapter 2 of this book is particularly interesting because it is an example of a full - fledged archaic solution to the religio - political problem (or a full - fledged archaic civil religion) that has survived into the twentieth century.

At least such a perspective directs us to further research into the issue of civil religion.

It is safe to say the the movement will be transformed into a conservative civil religion leaning on political power to carry out its bidding.

She was the first member of Congress to introduce gay rights legislation, her approach being a full - scale incorporation of sexual orientation into the protections afforded by the 1964 Civil Rights Act against discrimination based on race, religion, sex, and other categories.

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[UPDATED 3:45 p.m. below — response from publisher] Matthew LaClair, a high school senior in Kearny, N.J., had already gained fame as something of a one - man American Civil Liberties Union for pointing out intrusions of religion into the classroom.