Sentences with phrase «of civil religion»

It does not include all possible indications of the formative power of civil religion in the values of a congregation.

To answer such questions is to advance our understanding of civil religion.

Even if members have been deeply influenced by the values of civil religion, this does not mean that members don't want the pastor to function as their spiritual leader.

Moreover the public practice of civil religion and personal therapeutic propensity are mutually reinforcing.

The ethos of civil religion continues to affect the overall climate of many schools.

But it also shows the extent to which guns have become a kind of civil religion.

Phillip Hammond in Chapter 3 and John Coleman elsewhere argue American civil religion is distinct from other forms of civil religion in that it is differentiated from both church and state.2 Indeed, Hammond wonders whether the term «civil religion» ought not to be restricted to Situations typo - logically similar to the American case, which would make the term rather restrictive and perhaps therefore stronger in comparative perspective.

For Habermas, however, the notion of civil religion seems to be an unworkable throwback to a less modernized set of values.

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.

While Rousseau is generally credited with coining the term «civil religion,» analysis of civil religion in sociology has been influenced more by Emile Durkheim.

To understand the Christianity of this period [Victorian] we must look not only at public symbols of civil religion... but at the sacramental character of the home.

But in Reston we have a true prophet of the civil religion — i.e., one who criticizes public policy from within the civil religious tradition.

I would disagree with Marty — I think Senator Hatfield's remarks were not an expression of prophetic civil religion but rather a criticism of civil religion from the standpoint of a vigorous evangelical Protestant witness.

To participate effectively in a constitutive dialogue carried on in the venue of the courts, one must be a member of the priestly class of our civil religion: a lawyer or someone with a large measure of legal knowledge.

It's an imposition of a civil religion (democratic process) on a religious leadership selection issue.

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.

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.

This becomes clear if we look at the two central aspects of Rousseau's political philosophy: the social contract and the idea of civil religion.

«The trouble with this approach, of course, is that despite the veneer of civil religion, most people in America aren't worried about whether they break one of the Ten Commandments now and then, and they certainly don't see the logic behind the claim that infractions of that sort warrant everlasting damnation.

As noted, therefore, American churches have been politically involved in civil, not just ecclesiastic, affairs, and thus served as agents of the civil religion.

But inasmuch as these and similar ideas are also found in Mexico's ideological heritage, the simple availability of the ideas is not enough to explain the presence of civil religion in the one country and its absence in the other.

Such local groups are often deeply implicated in the piety of the state, but nonetheless each congregation retains a culture distinguishable from the pattern of the civil religion.

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.

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.

A second false view is in degenerate modes of civil religion which regard God as a patron and ally of Americanism in all its forms.

Reston's God, like the one Bellah described, is typical of the God of civil religion, is on the vague and austere side, «much more related to order, law, and right than to salvation and love.»

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.

Reston's moral philosophy is rooted in a religious statement which essentially is that of the civil religion tradition.

Some exceptions: we are liberally treated to images said to depict civil religion, but we learn very little about the theology of civil religion.

For those largely in the Rousseau camp this blind spot is their difficulty in taking seriously the claims of a civil religion.

James Wolfe has developed a typology of civil religions linked to my typology of the stages of religious evolution.3 This chapter builds on these previous efforts to develop a comparative perspective.

We sometimes speak of a civil religion that, although clearly Protestant in ethos, merged this Protestantism with patriotism.