From nationalism to internationalism: civil religion and the festival of Saint Catherine of Siena, 1940-2003. From: Journal of Church and State | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: Parsons, Gerald A. | COPYRIGHT 2004 J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

INTRODUCTION

Despite the fact that Robert Bellah concluded his seminal essay of 1967 on "Civil Religion in America" with the hope that, in time a "vital international symbolism" might be incorporated into American civil religion, or even that American civil religion might become "one part of a new civil religion of the world," it is nevertheless still sometimes assumed that "civil religion" will tend to promote the celebration of narrowly national and even militaristic ...

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