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Rhetorical Analysis of
Civil Religion In America by Robert H. Bellah

Robert N. Bellah “Civil Religion In America” was written in the winter of 1967 and is

copyrighted by the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences from the issue

entitled “religion in America”. In his writings Bellah Explains the idea and workings of Civil

Religion in the United States; this chapter was written for a Dædalus conference on American

Religion in May 1966. It was reprinted with comments and a rejoined in The Religious Situation.

Civil Religion is the idea that our own government has its own Devine right of worship and is

parallel to the writings of the Bible. It’s the concept that the United States is its own religion as

a form of Christianity complete with its own form of life beyond, rewards of virtue, and the

punishment of vice, and the exclusion of religious intolerance. But in order for a religion to be

plausible and become a success it needs a......

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