Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Format of Original
13 p.
Publication Date
3-2002
Publisher
Religious Communication Association
Source Publication
The Journal of Communication and Religion
Source ISSN
0894-2838
Abstract
This essay discusses Roderick P. Hart's unique contribution to the scholarly investigation of civil religion in America. The essay also comments on traditional rhetorical constructions of civil religious discourse manifest in the presidential public address of George W. Bush. The essay concludes by offering evaluative commentary on three sets of innate tensions that complicate rhetorical constructions of civil religion: Church and state, republicanism and liberalism, and pluralism and secularism.
Recommended Citation
Goldzwig, Steven R., "Official and Unofficial Civil Religious Discourse" (2002). College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications. 314.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/comm_fac/314
Comments
Published version. The Journal of Communication and Religion, Vol. 25, No. 1 (March 2002): 102-114. Publisher link. © 2002 Religious Communication Association. Used with permission.
This article was published as Chapter 13 of the book The Political Pulpit Revisited. Eds. Roderick P. Hart and John L. Pauley II. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press 2005: 151-160. Publisher link.