Twenty Years after Bellah
Whatever Happened to American Civil Religion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5096468 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James A Mathisen (Wheaton College - Illinois, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 129 |
| Publication date | 1989-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Analysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0210 • E-ISSN: 2325-7873 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3710983 |
| OpenAlex | W2309279663 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
| References cited | 82 |
The year 1987 marked the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Robert N. Bellah's provocative essay "Civil Religion in America." Because of that anniversary and because we have read less about civil religion lately, an assessment of the status of American civil religion, especially during the 1980s, is in order. This article has three purposes. The first is a bibliographic review of the American civil religion literature, with emphasis upon the 1980s. The second is an argument for four phases in, or a periodicity of, discussion about American civil religion since 1967. The third purpose is a brief explanation for the waning of discussion and the current state of American civil religion
Argument (complex analysis · Civil Religion · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
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| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,94 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2023 (33) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |