CIVIL RELIGION TODAY

CIVIL RELIGION TODAY. Philip S. Gorski. Yale University. Is civil religion still relevant? In his much-cited,1967 article in Daedalus, Robert N. Bellah (2005) famously contended that there exists in America a civil religion, “a set of beliefs, symbols, and rituals” that “exists alongside of, and rather clearly differentiated from, the churches.” ................
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