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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Politics of the Sacred in America
    sub title: The Role of Civil Religion in Political Practice
  name:
    name part: Squiers, Anthony.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 181 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the political dimensions of civil religion in the United States. By employing an original social-psychological theory rooted in semiotics, it offers a qualitative and quantitative empirical examination of more than fifty years of political rhetoric. Further, it presents two in-depth case studies that examine how the cultural, totemic sign of 'the Founding Fathers' and the signs of America's sacred texts (the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence) are used in attempts to link partisan policy positions with notions that the country collectively holds sacred. The book's overarching thesis is that America's civil religion serves as a discursive framework for the country's politics of the sacred, mediating the demands of particularistic interests and social solidarity through the interaction of social belief and institutional politics like elections and the Supreme Court. The book penetrates America's unique political religiosity to reveal and unravel the intricate ways in which politics, political institutions, religion and culture intertwine in the United States. .
  table of contents: The Political Dimensions of the American Civil Religion (ACR): An Introduction -- A Theoretical Model for the Study of Civil Religious Signs -- The ACR in Public Political Discourse: 1960 to 2012 -- The Apotheosis of the Founding Fathers and Signs of Filial Piety -- Sacred Documents, Sacred Signs: The Constitution and Declaration of Independence -- Contesting the Politics of the Sacred -- Conclusion: The Mediation of the Universal and Particular. .
  note: by Anthony Squiers.
  subject:
    topic: United States-Politics and government
  subject:
    topic: Political sociology
  subject:
    topic: Religion and sociology
  subject:
    topic: United States-Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: US Politics
  subject:
    topic: Political Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of Religion
  subject:
    topic: American Culture
  classification: JK1-9993
  classification: 320.973
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319688701
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68870-1
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    record creation date: 171221
    record change date: 20191023222215.0
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