God and War: American Civil Religion since 1945
In this book, Raymond Haberski Jr. surveys select intellectual, spiritual, and political actors and ideas that have contributed to forging different incarnations of civil religion in the United States since 1945. Haberski traces an important development in American civil religion to Abraham Lincoln...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2013, Volume: 55, Issue: 4, Pages: 822-824 |
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| Summary: | In this book, Raymond Haberski Jr. surveys select intellectual, spiritual, and political actors and ideas that have contributed to forging different incarnations of civil religion in the United States since 1945. Haberski traces an important development in American civil religion to Abraham Lincoln and his attempts to make sense of the fracture of American identity that accompanied the Civil War. Civil religion is herein associated with broadly Judeo-Christian forms that meld with political principles to offer a vision of the nation as something worthy of sacrifice. The connection with war is both obvious and perilous as it opens up the possibility that the nation might find redemption through war, even in the death and destruction that accompanies such conflict. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/cst067 |