The rhetoric of American civil religion : symbols, sinners, and Saints /
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2016]
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| Series: | Lexington studies in political communication.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: What is civil religion? / Jason A. Edwards and Joseph M. Valenzano III
- 1. The Exodus: The textual heart of American civil religion / Theon E. Hill
- 2. "Glory in the Fight": Frederick Douglass and the revival of Republican religion / Sarah A. Morgan Smith
- 3. Civil Religion as Communal Democratic Sentiment: An Emersonian perspective / Andrea Terry
- 4. Lighting "Human Spirit-Lamps": Frances Willard, the conscience of reform, and American civil religion / Angela Lahr
- 5. Billy Graham's Cold War Rhetoric: Evangelical and civil religious revival / Marissa Lowe Wallace
- 6. In God (and Capitalism) We Trust: Identification through division in 1950s civil religion / Bethany Keeley-Jonker
- 7. Civil Religion as Christian Religion: Francis Schaeffer's liberal fundamentalism / Eric C. Miller
- 8. Sinners and Saints: Public memory, civil religion, and citizenship at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum / John P. Koch
- 9. Civil Religion or Mere Religion?: The debate over presidential religious rhetoric / David Weiss
- 10. Discovering Self in the Absence of Privacy: Race, civil religion, and the imagined bilalians / Sher Afhan Tareen
- 11. Barack Obama and the Expansion of American Civil Religion / Kevin Coe, David Domke, and Penelope Sheets
- 12. What Binds This Nation Together: Barack Obama's secular messianic style in his second inaugural address / Catherine L. Langford.