The rhetoric of American civil religion : symbols, sinners, and saints / edited by Jason A. Edwards and Joseph M. Valenzano III.
The Rhetoric of American Civil Religion examines the rhetoric of the Founding Fathers, activists, presidents, and contemporary actors who play a large role in helping to define American civil religion. These rhetorical analyses demonstrate how America's civil religion is forged through the cons...
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
2016.
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| Series: | Lexington studies in political communication.
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Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One: The Exodus; Chapter Two: "Glory in the Fight"; Chapter Three: Civil Religion as Communal Democratic Sentiment; Chapter Four: Lighting "Human Spirit-Lamps"; Chapter Five: Billy Graham's Cold War Rhetoric; Chapter Six: In God (and Capitalism) We Trust; Chapter Seven: Civil Religion as Christian Religion; Chapter Eight: Sinners and Saints; Chapter Nine: Civil Religion or Mere Religion?; Chapter Ten: Discovering Self in the Absence of Privacy; Chapter Eleven: Barack Obama and the Expansion of American Civil Religion
- Chapter Twelve: What Binds This Nation TogetherIndex; About the Editors and Contributors