Perspectives on civil religion / Gerald Parsons
- Bib ID:
- 231009
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Parsons, Gerald
- Description:
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- Aldershot, Hants ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate ; Milton Keynes, U.K. : Open University, 2002
- 283 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0754607461 (hardback)
- 0754608182 (paperback)
- Series:
- Religion today ; v. 3.
- Summary:
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"Perspectives on Civil Religion introduces the concept of civil religion, examines the use of the concept in recent scholarship and investigates examples of civil religion in the contemporary world. The book sets out to explore tensions and complexities in the relationship between the 'sacred' and the 'secular', and draws on two major case studies for in-depth illustration of key issues. It looks first at the development of rituals of remembrance from the American Civil War, British and American responses to the two world wars and the controversial Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. It then considers civil religion in the Italian city of Siena, especially in relation to the Palio of Siena and Sienese devotion to the Virgin."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: the concept of civil religion
- Ch. 1. 'Lest we forget': British and American rituals of remembrance as civil religion
- Ch. 2. Public monuments and private grief: war graves, war memorials and personal pilgrimage
- Ch. 3. 'To heal a nation?' Civil religion and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Ch. 4. 'Dedicated to the Virgin': civil religion and Sienese devotion to the Madonna
- Ch. 5. 'Unity in diversity': civil religion and the Palio of Siena
- Ch. 6. Images of civic devotion: Palio drappelloni and Sienese civil religion
- Ch. 7. 'Sacred and profane': popular rituals in Sienese civil religion
- Conclusion: civil religion reconsidered.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Civil religion
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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