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The essays in this volume blend historical and philosophical reflection with concern for contemporary political problems. They show that the causes and motivations of civil religion are a permanent fixture of the human condition, though some of its manifestations and proximate causes have shifted in an age of multiculturalism, religious toleration, and secularization

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Foreword
  2. pp. vii-x
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. xi
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-16
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  1. Part One. The Legacy of Civil Religion in the History of Political Philosophy
  1. 1. Gods for the City and Beyond: Civil Religion in Plato’s Laws
  2. pp. 19-46
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  1. 2. Truth versus Utility: The Debate on Civil Religion in the Roman Empire of the Third and Fourth Centuries
  2. pp. 47-65
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  1. 3. The Humility of True Religion: Augustine’s Critique of Roman Civil Religion
  2. pp. 66-92
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  1. 4. Forgiving Those Not Trespassing against Us: Hobbes and the Establishment of the Nonsectarian State Church
  2. pp. 93-120
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  1. 5. Civil Religion as Political Technology in Bacon’s New Atlantis
  2. pp. 121-144
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  1. 6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Civil Religion: Freedom of the Individual, Toleration, and the Price of Mass Authenticity
  2. pp. 145-166
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  1. 7. Alexis de Tocqueville on “Civil Religion” and the Catholic Faith
  2. pp. 167-204
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  1. Part Two. The Enduring Relevance of Civil Religion in North America
  1. 8. Rational Theology: Thomas Jefferson and the Foundation of America’s Civil Religion
  2. pp. 207-235
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  1. 9. Unsettling Faith: The Radicalization of the First Amendment and Its Consequences
  2. pp. 236-261
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  1. 10. The Personal (Is Not?) the Political: The Role of Religion in the Presidency of George W. Bush
  2. pp. 262-279
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  1. 11. Sacred Words, Fighting Words: The Bible and National Meaning in Canada, 1860–1900
  2. pp. 280-297
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  1. 12. Civil Religion and Associational Life under Canada’s “Ephemeral Monster” : Canada’s Multi-Headed Constitution
  2. pp. 298-328
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 329-346
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 347-348
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 349-357
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