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Author: Peter Gardella (Professor of World Religions, Professor of World Religions, Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.90cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 15.20cm
Weight: 0.766kg
ISBN: 9780195300178
ISBN 10: 0195300173
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 16 January 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Deeply significant...a book such as Gardella's can do much to help orient Americans to their stated commitments to equality, peace, and cultural tolerance. Thus, Gardella's American Civil Religion promises to make a unique and valuable contribution to Americans' understanding of themselves and commitment to greater faithfulness to their most cherished ideals. S-USIH Gardella has a gift for linking many of the civil icons with structural counterparts in religion. Anglican Theological Review Each chapter provides illuminating discussions of history and current status as well as Gardella's interpretation of the symbolism/sacred meaning of each topic...Recommended. CHOICE In this engaging work, Peter Gardella revives the concept of civil religion and gives it new life through a detailed tour of its specifics. Drawing on a variety of materials-documents, music, monuments, places, symbols-he takes materials with which we are all familiar and puts them in a theoretical context that is at once sophisticated and accessible. Peter W. Williams, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Religion and American Studies (Emeritus), Miami University
Each chapter provides illuminating discussions of history and current status as well as Gardella's interpretation of the symbolism/sacred meaning of each topic...Recommended. --CHOICE In this engaging work, Peter Gardella revives the concept of civil religion and gives it new life through a detailed tour of its specifics. Drawing on a variety of materials-documents, music, monuments, places, symbols-he takes materials with which we are all familiar and puts them in a theoretical context that is at once sophisticated and accessible. --Peter W. Williams, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Religion and American Studies (Emeritus), Miami University
""Deeply significant...a book such as Gardella's can do much to help orient Americans to their stated commitments to equality, peace, and cultural tolerance. Thus, Gardella's American Civil Religion promises to make a unique and valuable contribution to Americans' understanding of themselves and commitment to greater faithfulness to their most cherished ideals.""--S-USIH ""Gardella has a gift for linking many of the civil icons with structural counterparts in religion."" --Anglican Theological Review ""Each chapter provides illuminating discussions of history and current status as well as Gardella's interpretation of the symbolism/sacred meaning of each topic...Recommended.""--CHOICE ""In this engaging work, Peter Gardella revives the concept of civil religion and gives it new life through a detailed tour of its specifics. Drawing on a variety of materials-documents, music, monuments, places, symbols-he takes materials with which we are all familiar and puts them in a theoretical context that is at once sophisticated and accessible."" --Peter W. Williams, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Religion and American Studies (Emeritus), Miami University ""Since Robert Bellah's essay on American civil religion, there has been a great deal of discussion about American civil religion, its symbols, and beliefs. Peter Gardella adds much to the discussion.""--Boheme
In this engaging work, Peter Gardella revives the concept of civil religion and gives it new life through a detailed tour of its specifics. Drawing on a variety of materials-documents, music, monuments, places, symbols-he takes materials with which we are all familiar and puts them in a theoretical context that is at once sophisticated and accessible. --Peter W. Williams, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Religion and American Studies (Emeritus), Miami University
Gardella has a gift for linking many of the civil icons with structural counterparts in religion. --Anglican Theological Review Each chapter provides illuminating discussions of history and current status as well as Gardella's interpretation of the symbolism/sacred meaning of each topic...Recommended. --CHOICE In this engaging work, Peter Gardella revives the concept of civil religion and gives it new life through a detailed tour of its specifics. Drawing on a variety of materials-documents, music, monuments, places, symbols-he takes materials with which we are all familiar and puts them in a theoretical context that is at once sophisticated and accessible. --Peter W. Williams, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Religion and American Studies (Emeritus), Miami University
Author Information
Peter Gardella is Professor of World Religions at Manhattanville College. His previous books are Innocent Ecstasy, on sex and religion in America; Domestic Religion, on American attitudes toward everyday life; and American Angels: Useful Spirits in the Material World. He is now working on The World's Religions in New York City: A History and Guide and on Birds in the World's Religions (with Laurence Krute).
