The Rhetoric of American Civil Religion

Symbols, Sinners, and Saints
Herausgeber: Edwards, Jason A.; Valenzano, Joseph M.

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Produktbeschreibung

The tie that binds all Americans, regardless of their demographic background, is faith in the American system of government. This faith manifests as a form of civil, or secular, religion with its own core documents, creeds, oaths, ceremonies, and even individuals. In The Rhetoric of American Civil Religion: Symbols, Sinners, and Saints, contributors seek to examine some of those core elements of American faith by exploring the proverbial saints, sinners and dominant symbols of the American system.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9781498541503
• ISBN-10: 149854150X
• Artikelnr.: 53692407

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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