The essays in this volume blend historical and philosophical reflection with concern for contemporary political problems. They show that the causes and motivati

Inspired by Machiavelli, modern philosophers held that the tension between the goals of biblical piety and the goals of political life needed to be resolved in

Civil Religion offers philosophical commentaries on more than twenty thinkers stretching from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. It examines four important

"An important concept that scholars have used to help understand the relationship between religion and the American nation and polity has been 'civil religion.'

The long battle between exclusionary and inclusive versions of the American story Was America founded as a Christian nation or a secular democracy? Neither, arg