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In Trump, we have abandoned our civil religion — and we are no longer the same
(RNS) — President Donald Trump began his second administration much as he did his first: by flouting the tenets of American civil religion that inaugural addresses traditionally embody.
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People and Ideas: Civil War and Reconstruction
creating an American Scripture and articulating an American civil religion that still suffuses the idea of the nation with religious significance. Fondly do we hope -- fervently do we pray -- that ...
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In 19th-Century America, Two ‘Christian Nations’ Took Up Arms
How the intensifying religious visions of North and South erupted into civil war. In his second inaugural address, delivered as the Civil War neared its end, Abraham Lincoln turned not to politics ...
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Civil War
The Civil War ended with Charles I's execution and the establishment of a Protestant Republic, but the Restoration saw various Protestant sects persecuted. In Wales the Quakers in particular were ...
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Title VII › Civil Rights Act › Religious Exemption
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act is a United States federal law enacted in 1964 and aimed at preventing discrimination in the workplace on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, and ...
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Civil War
The Civil War ended with Charles I's execution and the establishment of a Protestant Republic, but the Restoration saw various Protestant sects persecuted. In Wales the Quakers in particular were ...