Civil Religion in the United States ... the Challenges and Opportunities

Civil Religion was not a luxury. Instead, it was the central pillar of American nation construction. The strange thing is that everyone who wrote about American affairs before 1967 did not pay attention to this fact except that Robert wrote his article, which opened the eyes of thinkers to that absent truth. Perhaps there were some attempts before to touch the scales of the idea and its impact on American society. Still, it was not with the same Religion and clarity in which Bellah...
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Civil Religion was not a luxury. Instead, it was the central pillar of American nation construction. The strange thing is that everyone who wrote about American affairs before 1967 did not pay attention to this fact except that Robert wrote his article, which opened the eyes of thinkers to that absent truth. Perhaps there were some attempts before to touch the scales of the idea and its impact on American society. Still, it was not with the same Religion and clarity in which Bellah presented the idea that the thinkers received great enthusiasm, so many academic studies were written about it.
Bellah's thesis sparked a sensation and a great debate among political thinkers, theologians, and religious sociologists in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Many of the subsequent discussions revolved around the word "religion." Mainly because of Bellah's attachment to the precise nature of the phenomenon, he claimed to have defined: at the beginning of his original essay when he announced the existence of an institutional Civil Religion in America, and despite his quick repudiation of the term the civil religion after he announce it. Many thinkers and theologians object to this term, using vocabulary that may not arouse anyone's ire,