Civil Religion Quotes
- The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God (though… — Jonathan Haidt
- Some Christians worried about a faith that was so embracing as to be meaningless, that exalted not the Almighty so much as the American way… — Nancy Gibbs
- Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture. — Edward Hirsch
- Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen. — Stanley Hauerwas