This book examines the rhetoric of the Founding Fathers, activists, presidents, and contemporary actors who play a large role in helping to define American civil religion. It demonstrates how America's civil religion is forged through contestations of its beliefs, rituals, places, events, and myths by different groups and individuals.
This book examines the rhetoric of the Founding Fathers, activists, presidents, and contemporary actors who play a large role in helping to define American civil religion. It demonstrates how America's civil religion is forged through contestations of its beliefs, rituals, places, events, and myths by different groups and individuals.
Jason A. Edwards is associate professor of communication studies at Bridgewater State University. Joseph M. Valenzano III is associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Dayton.
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IntroductionWhat 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 Civil 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, Religion and the Imagined Bilalians Sher Afgan 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 Index About the Contributors
IntroductionWhat 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 Civil 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, Religion and the Imagined Bilalians Sher Afgan 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 Index About the Contributors
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