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...

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. .