The Politics of the Sacred in America The Role of Civil Religion in Political Practice /

• Main Author: Squiers, Anthony (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: United States-Politics and government.; Political sociology.; Religion and sociology.; United States-Study and teaching.; US Politics.; Political Sociology.; Sociology of Religion.; American Culture.

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...