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Civil religion in political thought : its perennial questions and enduring relevance in North America / edited by Ronald Weed & John von Heyking.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and politics--North America.
- Religion and politics.
- Political science--North America.
- Political science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (375 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The essays in this volume blend historical and philosophical reflection with concern for contemporary political problems. They show that the causes and motivations of civil religion are a permanent fixture of the human condition, though some of its manifestations and proximate causes have shifted in an age of multiculturalism, religious toleration, and secularization
- Contents:
- Foreword / by Wilfred McClay
- Introduction / Ronald Weed and John von Heyking
- The legacy of civil religion in the history of political philosophy
- God's for the city and beyond : civil religion in Plato's laws / V. Bradley Lewis
- Truth versus utility: the debate on civil religion in the Roman Empire of the third and fourth centuries / Matthias Riedl
- The humility of true religion : Augustine's critique of Roman civil religion / David J. Bobb
- Forgiving those not trespassing against us : Hobbes and the establishment of the nonsectarian state church / Travis D. Smith
- Civil religion as political technology in Bacon's new Atlantis / David C. Innes
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau on civil religion : freedom of the individual, toleration, and the price of mass authenticity / Ronald Weed
- Alexis de Tocqueville on "civil religion" and the Catholic faith / Douglas Kries
- The enduring relevance of civil religion in North America
- Rational theology : Thomas Jefferson and the foundation of America's civil religion / Jeff Sikkenga
- Unsettling faith : the radicalization of the First Amendment and its consequences / Thomas F. Powers
- The personal is (not?) the political : the role of religion in the presidency of George W. Bush / Joseph M. Knippenberg
- Sacred words, fighting words : the Bible and national meaning in Canada, 1860-1900 / Preston Jones
- Civil religion and associational life under Canada's "ephemeral monster" : Canada's multi-headed constitution / John von Heyking.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-345) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-1814-4
- OCLC:
- 812915064
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