The Seventh-day Adventists: Heretics of American Civil Religion
Seventh-day Adventism is the least understood of American religious movements. It is argued here that the sect has defined its identity in contradistinction to precisely those elements of the host culture that have constituted “civil religion,” and that the deviation is heretical in nature. This ana...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1989
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1989, Volume: 50, Issue: 2, Pages: 177-187 |
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| Summary: | Seventh-day Adventism is the least understood of American religious movements. It is argued here that the sect has defined its identity in contradistinction to precisely those elements of the host culture that have constituted “civil religion,” and that the deviation is heretical in nature. This analysis not only provides a model for the study of Adventism; it also suggests that “civil religion” has been sufficiently differentiated to generate an identifiable heresy. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3710988 |