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"An important concept that scholars have used to help understand the relationship between religion and the American nation and polity has been 'civil religion.'

Americans have long considered their country to be good—a nation "under God" with a profound role to play in the world. Yet nothing tests that proposition lik

"In 1980, Varieties of Civil Religion was the latest statement in the field of civil religion pioneered by Robert Bellah. Over thirty years later, scholarly int

"An important concept that scholars have used to help understand the relationship between religion and the American nation and polity has been 'civil religion.'

Moves the discussion of American civil religion into the twenty-first century Civil Religion, a term made popular by sociologist Robert Bellah a little over fif