Rhetoric of American Civil Religion (eBook)

Jason A. Edwards is associate professor of communication studies at Bridgewater State University. Joseph M. Valenzano III is associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Dayton.

IntroductionWhat is Civil Religion?Jason A. Edwards and Joseph M. Valenzano, III1. The Exodus: The Textual Heart of American Civil ReligionTheon E. Hill2. “Glory in the Fight:” Frederick Douglass and the Revival of Republican Civil ReligionSarah A. Morgan Smith3. Civil Religion as Communal Democratic Sentiment: An Emersonian PerspectiveAndrea Terry4. Lighting “Human Spirit Lamps”: Frances Willard, the Conscience of Reform, and American Civil ReligionAngela Lahr5. Billy Graham’s Cold War Rhetoric: Evangelical and Civil Religious RevivalMarissa Lowe Wallace6. In God (and Capitalism) We Trust: Identification Through Division in 1950s Civil ReligionBethany Keeley-Jonker7. Civil Religion as Christian Religion: Francis Schaeffer’s Liberal FundamentalismEric C. Miller8. Sinners and Saints: Public Memory, Civil Religion, and Citizenship at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential MuseumJohn P. Koch9. Civil Religion or Mere Religion? The Debate Over Presidential Religious RhetoricDavid Weiss10. Discovering Self in the Absence of Privacy: Race, Religion and the Imagined BilaliansSher Afgan Tareen11. Barack Obama and the Expansion of American Civil ReligionKevin Coe, David Domke, and Penelope Sheets12. What Binds This Nation Together: Barack Obama’s Secular Messianic Style in His Second Inaugural AddressCatherine L. LangfordIndexAbout the Contributors