Civil religion, also referred to as a civic religion, is the implicit religious values of a nation, as expressed through public rituals, symbols (such...

American civil religion is a sociological theory that a monotheistic nonsectarian civil religion exists within the United States with sacred symbols drawn...

Chinese folk religion comprises a range of traditional religious practices of Han Chinese, including the Chinese diaspora. This includes the veneration...

political religion, but various scholars have described features of political religion even in democracies, for instance American civil religion as described...

the 1500s. The concept of religion was first used in the 1500s to distinguish the domain of the church and the domain of civil authorities; the Peace of...

between religion and the economic or social structure of society. Contemporary debates have centered on issues such as secularization, civil religion, and...

Religion in politics covers various topics related to the effects of religion on politics. Religion has been claimed to be "the source of some of the...

to pose America's civil religion against the atheistic communist faith. Hawley's assault on the left's alternative civil religion harks back to that...

While the word religion is difficult to define, one standard model of religion used in religious studies courses defines it as [a] system of symbols which...

ritual religion (s 礼教, t 禮教 Lǐjiào, "rites' transmission", also called 名教 Míngjiào, the "names' transmission"), or the Confucian civil religion, defines...

state religion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. National religion may refer to: State religion National church Ethnic religion Civil religion This disambiguation...

pilgrimages and "sacred" days that became incorporated into the American civil religion. George Washington was always their hero and after his death he became...

state religion (also called official religion) is a religion or creed officially endorsed by a sovereign state. A state with an official religion (also...

(mostly Melkite and Orthodox) and the religion of the Druze people. Religion plays a central role in national and civil life, and almost all Israeli citizens...

Freedom of religion or religious liberty, also known as freedom of religion or belief (FoRB), is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual...

and the civil state is determined by the legal structures and prevalent legal views that define the proper relationship between organized religion and the...

May Fourth Movement. Cai Yuanpei proposed that the formation of a new civil religion can be achieved by cultivating the Chinese to learn aesthetics, democracy...

Encyclopedia of Religion and Society. Rowman Altamira. pp. 49–50. ISBN 978-0-7619-8956-1. Cristi, Marcela (2001). From Civil to Political Religion: The Intersection...

underpin American politics, law and morals has been part of the "American civil religion" since the 1940s. In recent years, the phrase has been associated with...

pseudoreligion, quasi-religion, or civil religion. Civil religion – Manifestation of religious values inherent to nations Fictional religion Folk religion – Expressions...

naturalistic considerations, uninvolved with religion. It is most commonly thought of as the separation of religion from civil affairs and the state and may be broadened...

have traditionally been skeptical of or vehemently opposed to organized religion. Nevertheless, some anarchists have provided religious interpretations...

Religion of Humanity (from French Religion de l'Humanité or église positiviste) is a secular religion created by Auguste Comte (1798–1857), the founder...

Postchristianity is the situation in which Christianity is no longer the dominant civil religion of a society but has gradually assumed values, culture, and worldviews...

supplement rather than compete with civil religion. An individual could easily observe the rites of the state religion, be an initiate in one or more mysteries...

whether based on a different denomination, religion or sect. Some immigrants came from England after the English Civil War and the rise of Protestant dissenting...

native Roman religion were marginalized or overlaid by interpretatio graeca, and the Roman imperial cult evolved into a civil religion which involved...

Nationalism, War Aims, and Religion. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820310770. Bestor, Arthur (1964). "The American Civil War as a Constitutional...

abrogated, and therefore all civil governments must enforce them (including the specific penalties). Theonomy holds that all civil governments must refrain...

take the form of a national epic, or it may be incorporated into a civil religion. A group of related myths about a nation may be referred to as the national...