The Great Evil: Christianity, the Bible, and the Native American Genocide
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
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| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life, Department of Religious Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States,, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ANO | 2009 |
| TIPO | Book |
| PERIÓDICO | Social Compass |
| ISSN | 0037-7686 |
| E-ISSN | 1461-7404 |
| EDITORA | Annual Reviews (United States) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0037768609103363 |
| CITAÇÕES | 2 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-14 |
| MD5 |
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Resumo
The period since 1980 in the United States offers an opportunity to reexamine the 'American civil religion' hypothesis as put forth by sociologist Robert N. Bellah. In a time of massive changes both domestically and globally, presidential rhetoric on God and country underwent important shifts in substance and style. The author examines several major myths by which Americans have affirmed their identity historically, and how these have informed the rhetoric of presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, William J. Clinton, and George W. Bush. It is argued that popular and highly contested 'public faiths' in the United States blending religious and political ideals take diverse forms of expression and vary in the degree to which they approach a civil religion of the sort Bellah imagined. In this recent period, a shift toward religious nationalism is clearly evident.