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The rhetoric of American civil religion : symbols, sinners, and Saints

Title: The rhetoric of American civil religion : symbols, sinners, and Saints / edited by Jason A. Edwards and Joseph M. Valenzano III.
Publication: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]

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Description

xvii, 228 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Lexington studies in political communication

Uniform Title

Lexington studies in political communication.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Church history.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 16-13781

ISBN

9781498541480
1498541488

LCCN

2016029509
40026578719

OCLC

951506729

Title

The rhetoric of American civil religion : symbols, sinners, and Saints / edited by Jason A. Edwards and Joseph M. Valenzano III.

Publisher

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Lexington studies in political communication

Lexington studies in political communication.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Edwards, Jason A., 1973- editor.

Valenzano, Joseph M., III, 1978- editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40026578719

Research Call Number

JFE 16-13781

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