Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / by Wilfred McClay
  • Introduction / Ronald Weed and John von Heyking
  • The legacy of civil religion in the history of political philosophy
  • God's for the city and beyond : civil religion in Plato's laws / V. Bradley Lewis
  • Truth versus utility: the debate on civil religion in the Roman Empire of the third and fourth centuries / Matthias Riedl
  • The humility of true religion : Augustine's critique of Roman civil religion / David J. Bobb
  • Forgiving those not trespassing against us : Hobbes and the establishment of the nonsectarian state church / Travis D. Smith
  • Civil religion as political technology in Bacon's new Atlantis / David C. Innes
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau on civil religion : freedom of the individual, toleration, and the price of mass authenticity / Ronald Weed
  • Alexis de Tocqueville on "civil religion" and the Catholic faith / Douglas Kries
  • The enduring relevance of civil religion in North America
  • Rational theology : Thomas Jefferson and the foundation of America's civil religion / Jeff Sikkenga
  • Unsettling faith : the radicalization of the First Amendment and its consequences / Thomas F. Powers
  • The personal is (not?) the political : the role of religion in the presidency of George W. Bush / Joseph M. Knippenberg
  • Sacred words, fighting words : the Bible and national meaning in Canada, 1860-1900 / Preston Jones
  • Civil religion and associational life under Canada's "ephemeral monster" : Canada's multi-headed constitution / John von Heyking.