TY  - CHAP
AB  - Philip S. Gorski's “Barack Obama and civil religion” seeks to revive and reform the concept of civil religion. This response addresses two sets of issues raised by the entwined analytic and normative claims in the chapter. The first concerns the definition of civil religion, including how the civil and religious spheres are connected within it and how civil religion differs conceptually from other related models. The second concerns whether a renewed commitment to civil religion will provide a platform for greater openness and pluralism, as Gorski claims.
VL  - 22
SN  - 978-0-85724-911-1, 978-0-85724-912-8/0198-8719
DO  - 10.1108/S0198-8719(2011)0000022014
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0198-8719(2011)0000022014
AU  - Gerteis Joseph
ED  - Julian Go
PY  - 2011
Y1  - 2011/01/01
TI  - Civil Religion and the Politics of Belonging
T2  - Rethinking Obama
T3  - Political Power and Social Theory
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 215
EP  - 223
Y2  - 2024/04/26
ER  -