03793nam 22005655 450 991030050870332120200630110251.03-319-68870-710.1007/978-3-319-68870-1(CKB)4100000001382395(DE-He213)978-3-319-68870-1(MiAaPQ)EBC5210177(PPN)259471240(EXLCZ)99410000000138239520171221d2018 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Politics of the Sacred in America The Role of Civil Religion in Political Practice /by Anthony Squiers1st ed. 2018.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2018.1 online resource (XIV, 181 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color.) 3-319-68869-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.The Political Dimensions of the American Civil Religion (ACR): An Introduction -- A Theoretical Model for the Study of Civil Religious Signs -- The ACR in Public Political Discourse: 1960 to 2012 -- The Apotheosis of the Founding Fathers and Signs of Filial Piety -- Sacred Documents, Sacred Signs: The Constitution and Declaration of Independence -- Contesting the Politics of the Sacred -- Conclusion: The Mediation of the Universal and Particular. .This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the political dimensions of civil religion in the United States. By employing an original social-psychological theory rooted in semiotics, it offers a qualitative and quantitative empirical examination of more than fifty years of political rhetoric. Further, it presents two in-depth case studies that examine how the cultural, totemic sign of ‘the Founding Fathers’ and the signs of America’s sacred texts (the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence) are used in attempts to link partisan policy positions with notions that the country collectively holds sacred. The book’s overarching thesis is that America’s civil religion serves as a discursive framework for the country’s politics of the sacred, mediating the demands of particularistic interests and social solidarity through the interaction of social belief and institutional politics like elections and the Supreme Court. The book penetrates America’s unique political religiosity to reveal and unravel the intricate ways in which politics, political institutions, religion and culture intertwine in the United States. .United States—Politics and governmentPolitical sociologyReligion and sociologyUnited States—Study and teachingUS Politicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911180Political Sociologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22170Sociology of Religionhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22210American Culturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411010United States—Politics and government.Political sociology.Religion and sociology.United States—Study and teaching.US Politics.Political Sociology.Sociology of Religion.American Culture.320.973Squiers Anthonyauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut892030BOOK9910300508703321The Politics of the Sacred in America1992194UNINA