SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: American Civil Religion, Masculinity

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: tootle

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This civil religion has aspects of christianity, but it is not really christian. Instead, it is centered around the idea of america as a country that is specially situated to fulfill the will of god. The first main aspect of bellah"s argument is his definition of america"s civic religion. He explicitly says that he is not claiming that we worship our country. Instead, he says that the vast majority of americans believe in a set of beliefs, symbols, and rituals that i am calling american civil religion. The next argument that bellah makes is that this civil religion came from the ideas of the founding fathers. The founding fathers did not typically make reference to jesus christ or to christianity even at a time when practically every. They did not talk about any particular theological conception of god, just about the idea that there was a.