Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One. The Legacy of Civil Religion in the History of Political Philosophy
1. Gods for the City and Beyond: Civil Religion in Plato’s Laws
2. Truth versus Utility: The Debate on Civil Religion in the Roman Empire of the Third and Fourth Centuries
3. The Humility of True Religion: Augustine’s Critique of Roman Civil Religion
4. Forgiving Those Not Trespassing against Us: Hobbes and the Establishment of the Nonsectarian State Church
5. Civil Religion as Political Technology in Bacon’s New Atlantis
6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Civil Religion: Freedom of the Individual, Toleration, and the Price of Mass Authenticity
7. Alexis de Tocqueville on “Civil Religion” and the Catholic Faith
Part Two. The Enduring Relevance of Civil Religion in North America
8. Rational Theology: Thomas Jefferson and the Foundation of America’s Civil Religion
9. Unsettling Faith: The Radicalization of the First Amendment and Its Consequences
10. The Personal (Is Not?) the Political: The Role of Religion in the Presidency of George W. Bush
11. Sacred Words, Fighting Words: The Bible and National Meaning in Canada, 1860–1900
12. Civil Religion and Associational Life under Canada’s “Ephemeral Monster” : Canada’s Multi-Headed Constitution
Bibliography
Contributors
Index