TY  - CHAP
AB  - Philip S. Gorski's “Barack Obama and Civil Religion” offers a number of important contributions to the study of American culture generally, and American Civil Religion (ACR) more specifically. Gorski's appreciation of the deep diversity in contemporary American society is a welcome development in ACR analysis. I ask whether the term “civil religion” remains most adequate for describing the sort of cultural phenomenon that Gorski, following Bellah, attempts to capture, and offer some methodological and interpretive comments on the promise and challenge of studying ACR in the twenty-first century United States. I close with some more particular remarks on Barack Obama and the contours of ACR as sketched by Gorski.
VL  - 22
SN  - 978-0-85724-911-1, 978-0-85724-912-8/0198-8719
DO  - 10.1108/S0198-8719(2011)0000022015
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0198-8719(2011)0000022015
AU  - Murphy Andrew R.
ED  - Julian Go
PY  - 2011
Y1  - 2011/01/01
TI  - Civil Religion for a Diverse Polity
T2  - Rethinking Obama
T3  - Political Power and Social Theory
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 225
EP  - 236
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -