Civil religion in political thought
Subtitle: its perennial questions and enduring relevance in North America
By: edited by Ronald Weed and John von Heyking.
Contributors: Weed, Ronald L.; Heyking, John von.
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press; The Catholic University of America Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780813217246
Subjects: Civil religion -- North America; Religion and politics -- North America
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Wilfred McClay; title: Introduction / Ronald Weed and John von Heyking; title: The legacy of civil religion in the history of political philosophy; title: God's for the city and beyond : civil religion in Plato's laws / V. Bradley Lewis; title: Truth versus utility: the debate on civil religion in the Roman Empire of the third and fourth centuries / Matthias Riedl; title: The humility of true religion : Augustine's critique of Roman civil religion / David J. Bobb; title: Forgiving those not trespassing against us : Hobbes and the establishment of the nonsectarian state church / Travis D. Smith; title: Civil religion as political technology in Bacon's new Atlantis / David C. Innes; title: Jean-Jacques Rousseau on civil religion : freedom of the individual, toleration, and the price of mass authenticity / Ronald Weed; title: Alexis de Tocqueville on civil religion and the Catholic faith / Douglas Kries; title: The enduring relevance of civil religion in North America; title: Rational theology : Thomas Jefferson and the foundation of America's civil religion / Jeff Sikkenga; title: Unsettling faith : the radicalization of the First Amendment and its consequences / Thomas Powers; title: The personal is (not) the political : George W. Bush's vocation and America's / Joseph M. Knippenberg; title: Sacred words, fighting words : the Bible and national meaning in Canada, 1860-1900 / Preston Jones; title: Civil religion and associational life under Canada's ephemeral monster : Canada's multi-headed constitution / John von Heyking.