Presidential inaugurations exhibit three facets of our civil religion — the priestly, the prophetic and the political — all of which Trump’s inaugural address ignored or transgressed.
Perhaps more important than civil religion’s ceremonial or priestly strand is its “prophetic” cord that imparts Americans’ faith in democracy with moral meaning and political substance.
The federal office that enforces civil rights at school across the nation has been ordered to prioritize complaints of antisemitism above all else as it molds to President Donald Trump’s agenda, ...
Why does every political season feel like a dogfight? It’s true that politics have always been ugly, but the amount of political debate that we are subject to has increased a hundred fold.
Specifically, both holidays relate to civil wars – and to civil religion as a means of establishing ... Framed as the giving of thanks, it was also a political prophecy: the Union would prevail ...
A report by the Nigeria-based International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law ... i.e., citizens’ freedom to practice their religion. In an atmosphere of chronic insecurity, religious ...
Trump on Tuesday rolled back the 60-year-old Equal Employment Opportunity executive order. Here's what that means for ...
Lyndon B. Johnson’s Executive Order 11246, promoting affirmative action in federal contracting, was among the number of DEI ...
Post-revolutionary Iran often is depicted as a society devoid and incapable of self-criticism that is dominated by a monolithic view of religion and politics. A revolutionary Islamic ideology is ...
The Civil War ended with Charles I's execution and the establishment of a Protestant Republic, but the Restoration saw various Protestant sects persecuted. In Wales the Quakers in particular were ...
The UCC is a common civil code or common law for every citizen in India, irrespective of religion and caste. The code is mentioned under Article 44 of the Constitution as a Directive Principle of ...