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... meaning of America itself [ Richey and Jones 1974 , 40 ] . * Religious Nationalism The third meaning that Richey and Jones give for the cate- gory civil religion is indicated by the phrase religious nation- alism . Here the nation is ...
... meaning of America itself [ Richey and Jones 1974 , 40 ] . * Religious Nationalism The third meaning that Richey and Jones give for the cate- gory civil religion is indicated by the phrase religious nation- alism . Here the nation is ...
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... meaning of life cannot be silenced as long as men are men . Religion cannot come to an end , and a particular religion will be lasting to the degree in which it negates itself as a religion . Thus Christianity will be a bearer of the ...
... meaning of life cannot be silenced as long as men are men . Religion cannot come to an end , and a particular religion will be lasting to the degree in which it negates itself as a religion . Thus Christianity will be a bearer of the ...
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... meaning unless this relevance is established throughout their elaboration , and unless their own in- trinsic meaning grows out of and is understood in terms of the powers , ambiguities , and crises of ordinary life [ Gilkey 1969 , 465 ] ...
... meaning unless this relevance is established throughout their elaboration , and unless their own in- trinsic meaning grows out of and is understood in terms of the powers , ambiguities , and crises of ordinary life [ Gilkey 1969 , 465 ] ...
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Lincoln and the Debate about Civil Religion | 41 |
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