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

Contributor Edwards, Jason A., 1973- editor.

ImprintLanham : Lexington Books, 2016.

Descriptionxxii, 228 pages ; 24 cm.

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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