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... religion . Indeed , such an out- come has been the eschatological hope of American civil religion from the beginning . To deny such an outcome would be to deny the meaning of America itself [ Richey and Jones 1974 , 40 ] . * Religious ...
... religion . Indeed , such an out- come has been the eschatological hope of American civil religion from the beginning . To deny such an outcome would be to deny the meaning of America itself [ Richey and Jones 1974 , 40 ] . * Religious ...
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... religious mysticism " [ Wilson 1954 , 197 ] . References to the union as religious mysticism are not as plentiful as some who refer to the essay might lead us to think . Sometimes Lincoln's speech in Indianapolis is cited and the point ...
... religious mysticism " [ Wilson 1954 , 197 ] . References to the union as religious mysticism are not as plentiful as some who refer to the essay might lead us to think . Sometimes Lincoln's speech in Indianapolis is cited and the point ...
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... religious community . He uses Patterns in Compara- tive Religion by Mircea Eliade [ 1958 ] to equate the uni- versal ... religious view of reality . The critical issue here , however , is whether an originally religious view of reality ...
... religious community . He uses Patterns in Compara- tive Religion by Mircea Eliade [ 1958 ] to equate the uni- versal ... religious view of reality . The critical issue here , however , is whether an originally religious view of reality ...
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Lincoln and the Debate about Civil Religion | 41 |
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