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1 CHAPTER 11: The Public, the Civil, & the Culture of the Center public Protestantism civil religion cultural religion

2 History of Public Protestantism Puritan foundations o New England textbooks o early American leaders o legal privileges o ethic of progress & efficiency

3 The Protestant Code religious liberty democratic equality denominationalism voluntaryism activism

4 The Protestant Code reductionism nonintellectualism ahistoricism moralism

5 Protestant Cultus revivalism o sacred space & time o hymns & sermons o prayers & testimonies o active search for conversion

6 Protestant Creed individualism higher law millennialism perfectionism

7 Models for Civil Religion Hebrew o nation bound by unity Roman o empire built on manyness

8 History of Civil Religion New England Puritanism Revolutionary War Constitution “manifest destiny”

9 Structure of Civil Religion creed of chosenness & millennialism code of civil action cultus of patriotic actions o visiting national sites o celebrating national holidays

10 Civil Religion to the Present decline of civil religion’s power scholarly interest o Robert Bellah’s “Civil Religion” o Sidney Mead’s “Religion of the Republic” o Will Herberg’s “American Way of Life”

11 Cultural Religion – American Ritual Calendar Halloween Thanksgiving Christmas New Years Day Valentine’s Day

12 Cultural Religion – American Sacred Stories television, film, literature common pattern: o good will defeat evil o evil will be punished millennial themes individualism

13 American Codes of Living sports o contesting forces o teamwork o hard work & sacrifice technology o machine as model o efficiency o standardization

14 More American Codes of Living popular psychology o human potential movement o happiness & creativity o self-help literature nature o symbol of purity o spontaneity & freedom

15 OVERVIEW of the “One Religion” Public Protestantism o equality, liberty, denominations & voluntaryism, activism, moralism, simplicity, millennialism Civil Religion o nationalism, patriotism Cultural Religion o sports, technology, psychology, nature

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