TY - BOOK AU - Weed,Ronald L. AU - Heyking,John von TI - Civil religion in political thought: its perennial questions and enduring relevance in North America SN - 9780813218144 (electronic bk.) AV - BL98.5 .C58 2010eb U1 - 322/.1097 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - Catholic University of America Press KW - Civil religion KW - North America KW - Religion and politics KW - Politische Philosophie KW - swd KW - Zivilreligion KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy KW - bisacsh KW - Nordamerika KW - Aufsatzsammlung KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword / by Wilfred McClay -- Introduction / Ronald Weed and John von Heyking -- The legacy of civil religion in the history of political philosophy -- God's for the city and beyond : civil religion in Plato's laws / V. Bradley Lewis -- Truth versus utility: the debate on civil religion in the Roman Empire of the third and fourth centuries / Matthias Riedl -- The humility of true religion : Augustine's critique of Roman civil religion / David J. Bobb -- Forgiving those not trespassing against us : Hobbes and the establishment of the nonsectarian state church / Travis D. Smith -- Civil religion as political technology in Bacon's new Atlantis / David C. Innes -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau on civil religion : freedom of the individual, toleration, and the price of mass authenticity / Ronald Weed -- Alexis de Tocqueville on "civil religion" and the Catholic faith / Douglas Kries -- The enduring relevance of civil religion in North America -- Rational theology : Thomas Jefferson and the foundation of America's civil religion / Jeff Sikkenga -- Unsettling faith : the radicalization of the First Amendment and its consequences / Thomas F. Powers -- The personal is (not?) the political : the role of religion in the presidency of George W. Bush / Joseph M. Knippenberg -- Sacred words, fighting words : the Bible and national meaning in Canada, 1860-1900 / Preston Jones -- Civil religion and associational life under Canada's "ephemeral monster" : Canada's multi-headed constitution / John von Heyking UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=489905 ER -