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Les États-Unis présenteraient le cas unique, dans le monde occidental, d'une démocratie ayant réservé à la religion une place à part dans la vie politique : voici une affirmation qui fait aujourd'hui figure de lieu commun. En ne retenant que les manifestations d'une certaine religiosité publique, on oublie de rappeler que la République américaine est fermement laïque, le Premier amendement garantissant la séparation des Églises et de l'État. Surtout, on passe à côté de la spécificité de ce pays qui explique le sentiment d'étrangeté qu'il nous inspire. Deux forces contradictoires y coexistent : un esprit de religion que l'on peut ramener à la volonté de placer l'ordre civil sous tutelle chrétienne, et un esprit de laïcité qui tend à l'inverse à cantonner la religion dans la sphère privée. Au cours de l'histoire, ces deux forces ont alterné par vagues successives, sans que jamais l'édifice laïque ne soit véritablement menacé. La synthèse a longtemps été assurée par la notion de « religion civile » qui associe idéal libéral et parrainage divin de la nation en une sorte de credo civil commun.

Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- North & South American Religions

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In the current times of increasing public visibility for candomblés, their records in the tombo books and the rhetoric for the preservation of Afro-Brazilian cultural heritage, it is not superfluous to take a close look at a not so remote past in which such African-based practices were sometimes silenced, sometimes persecuted and depreciated because they are identified with delay and deviation from European civilizing models. If this retrospective look proves salutary in realizing how much progress has been made, it also alerts us to how much more needs to be done, since the discourses of religious intolerance of yesterday are spreading today, although in new pulpits, with the same harmful effects. In this sense, Edmar Ferreira Santos' book achieves a goal that any research in social history can aim for: that of allowing us to understand in detail the complexity of the past, through it, to illuminate the paradoxes of the present (excerpt taken from the preface of the book).

North & South American Religions --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Bahia (Brazil : State) --- Religious life and customs.

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"Apocalypse is as American as apple pie, and if you've ever wondered why - from prepping to pandemics - you have come to the right book. Since the atomic blasts at Los Alamos, America has always had a special twist, a special take, on the end of the world, and Gittinger's audit of America's apocalyptic practice in this moment is more than just great fun and games, it's a revelation all its own. These apocalyptic anxieties teach us about ourselves, who we are, who we hope to be, and what we think is real and meaningful. Here is cultural philosophy as entertaining as it is enlightening." --Robert J. Joustra, Professor Politics & International Studies, Redeemer University, Canada In this book, Juli Gittinger argues that America's fascination (obsession?) with the apocalypse is a synthesis of religion, popular culture, and politics in a way that is particular to the US and consonant with mythological-historical narratives of America. As a result, wecan identify American apocalypticism as a sort of religion in itself that is closely tied to "civil religion," that has a worldview and rituals that create identifiable communities and connects American mythology to apocalyptic anxieties. Gittinger discusses how various cultures and groups form as a result of this obsession, and that these communities form their own rituals and responses in various forms of "prepping" or survivalist practices. She lays out an argument for a broad eschatology prevalent in the US that extends beyond traditional religious designations to form an apocalyptic worldview that is built into our narrative as a country, as well as furthered by popular culture and media's contribution to apocalyptic anxieties. Subsequently, Gittinger uses case studies of apocalyptic events-current or speculative-that reveal how our anxieties about the end of the world (as we know it) inform our culture, as well as religious narratives that emerge from such crises. Juli Gittinger is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Georgia College, USA.

Religion and sociology. --- Religions. --- America. --- Sociology. --- Ethnology --- Culture. --- Sociology of Religion. --- American Religions. --- American Culture.

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This collection marks a turning point in the study of the history of American religions. In challenging the dominant paradigm, Thomas A. Tweed and his coauthors propose nothing less than a reshaping of the way that American religious history is understood, studied, and taught. The range of these essays is extraordinary. They analyze sexual pleasure, colonization, gender, and interreligious exchange. The narrators position themselves in a number of geographical sites, including the Canadian border, the American West, and the Deep South. And they discuss a wide range of groups, from Pueblo Indians and Russian Orthodox to Japanese Buddhists and Southern Baptists.

Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- North & South American Religions --- United States --- Religion. --- Philosophy. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology

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The Palgrave Handbook of Religion and State Volume II: Global Perpectives addresses issues of Religion and State from a multitude of disciplines. The volume begins with the philosophical discussion of perennial issues that have to do with the origin and nature of rights. One question centers on the right to use one's religious beliefs to enact laws. This discussion alone sets this handbook apart from other handbooks of its type. While addressing these perennial questions, this volume includes authors who interact with the work of John Rawls, Hobbes, Rousseau, and a host of contemporary philosophers. The subsequent sections address the American Constitutional Experiment, religion, state, and law in the Americas.

Religions. --- Religion and state. --- Religion and politics. --- America. --- Religion and law. --- American Religions. --- Politics and Religion. --- Law and Religion.