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AbstractIt used to be thought that rational coherence and metaphysical possibility went hand in hand. Kripke and Putnam put a spanner in the works by proposing examples of propositions which seem to violate this principle. I will propose a nuanced form of modal rationalism consistent with the Kripke/Putnam cases. The rough idea is that rational coherence entails possibility when you grasp the essential nature of what you're conceiving of.

Evangelicals are increasingly turning their attention toward issues such as the environment, international human rights, economic development, racial reconciliation, and urban renewal. This marks an expansion of the social agenda advanced by the Religious Right over the past few decades. For outsiders to evangelical culture, this trend complicates simplistic stereotypes. For insiders, it brings contention over what "true" evangelicalism means today. The New Evangelical Social Engagement brings together an impressive interdisciplinary team of scholars to map this new religious terrain and spell out its significance. The volume`s introduction describes the broad outlines of this "new evangelicalism." The editors identify its key elements, trace its historical lineage, account for the recent changes taking place within evangelicalism, and highlight the implications of these changes for politics, civic engagement, and American religion. Part One of the book discusses important groups and trends: emerging evangelicals, the New Monastics, an emphasis on social justice, Catholic influences, gender dynamics and the desire to rehabilitate the evangelical identity, and evangelical attitudes toward the new social agenda. Part Two focuses on specific issues: the environment, racial reconciliation, abortion, international human rights, and global poverty. Part Three contains reflections on the new evangelical social engagement by three leading scholars in the fields of American religious history, sociology of religion, and Christian ethics.

"An important concept that scholars have used to help understand the relationship between religion and the American nation and polity has been "civil religion." A seminal article by Robert Bellah appeared just over fifty years ago. A multi-disciplinary array of scholars in this volume assess the concept's origins, history, and continued usefulness. In a period of great political polarization, considering whether there is hope for a unifying value and belief system seems more important than ever"--

Cover -- CIVIL RELIGION TODAY -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Beyond Bellah -- 1. The Past and Future of the American Civil Religion -- 2. The Utilitarian Context of American Civil Religion -- 3. Sacrifice, Service, and Civil Religion Now -- 4. Regions and Civil Religion(s) in America -- 5. Seeing Bellah's Civil Religion through a Black Feminist Lens -- 6. Civil Religion and the Problem of Origins -- 7. Uncle Sam, the Statue of Liberty, and Images of National Identity -- 8. George Washington, Miguel Hidalgo, and Transnational Civil Religion at the U.S.- Mexico Border -- 9. Civil Religion in Indianapolis -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Beyond Bellah -- 1. The Past and Future of the American Civil Religion -- 2. The Utilitarian Context of American Civil Religion -- 3. Sacrifice, Service, and Civil Religion Now -- 4. Regions and Civil Religion(s) in America -- 5. Seeing Bellah's Civil Religion through a Black Feminist Lens -- 6. Civil Religion and the Problem of Origins -- 7. Uncle Sam, the Statue of Liberty, and Images of National Identity -- 8. George Washington, Miguel Hidalgo, and Transnational Civil Religion at the U.S.- Mexico Border -- 9. Civil Religion in Indianapolis -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Index

The Bible in American life today / by Philip Goff, Arthur Farnsley, and Peter Thuesen -- America's first Bible : native uses, abuses, and re-uses of the Indian Bible of 1663 / by Linford D. Fisher -- The debate over prophetic evidence for the authority of the Bible in Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana / by Jan Stievermann -- Navigating the loss of interpretive innocence : reading the enlightenment Bible in early modern America / by Robert E. Brown -- Reading the Bible in a Romantic era / by Beth Schweiger -- The origins of whiteness and the black (biblical) imagination : the Bible in the slave narrative tradition / by emerson B. Powery -- Biblical women in the woman's exponent : the Bible in nineteenth-century Mormonism / by Amy Easton-Flake -- Scriptualizing religion and ethnicity : the circle seven Koran / by Sylvester Johnson -- Reading the Bible in war and crisis to know the future / by Matthew Avery Sutton -- Reference bibles and interpretive authority / by B.M. Pietsch -- The soul's train : the Bible and southern folk and popular music / by Paul Harvey -- Where two or three are gathered : the adult Bible class movement and the social life of Scripture / by Christopher D. Cantwell -- The word is true : King James onlyism and the quest for certainty in American evangelical life / by Jason A. Hentschel -- Selling trust : the Living Bible and the business of biblicism / by Daniel Vaca -- The Bible and the legacy of first wave feminism / by Claudia Setzer -- Let us be attentive : the orthodox study Bible, converts, and the debate on orthodox lay uses of Scripture / by Garrett Spivey -- The continuing distinctive role of the Bible in American lives : a comparative analysis / by Corwin Smidt -- Emerging trends in American children's Bibles, 1990-2015 / by Russell W. Dalton -- The curious case of the Christian Bible and the U.S. Constitution : challenges for educators teaching the Bible in a multi-religious context / by John F. Kutsko -- Transforming practice : American Bible reading in digital culture / by John B. Weaver -- Readers and their e-bibles : the shape and authority of the hypertext canon / by Bryan Bibb -- How American women and men read the Bible / by Amanda Friesen -- Feels right exegesis : qualitative research on how millennials read the Bible / by J. Derrick Lemons -- Crowning the King : the use of production and reception studies to determine the most popular English-language Bible translation in contemporary America / by Paul Gutjahr -- Literalism as creativity : intertextuality in making a biblical theme park / by James S. Bielo -- The Bible in the evangelical imagination / by Daniel Silliman -- Feeling the word : sensing Scripture at Salvation Mountain / by Sara M. Patterson -- The Bible : then and now / by Mark Noll

This collection of essays by American and European authors focuses on the diverse interactions between religious and commercial practices in U.S. history. In essays ranging from colonial American mercantilism to modern megachurches, from literary markets to popular festivals, the authors explore how religious behaviour is shaped by commerce and how commercial practices are informed by religion

Moves the discussion of American civil religion into the twenty-first century Civil Religion, a term made popular by sociologist Robert Bellah a little over fifty years ago, describes how people might share in a sacred sense of their nation. While hotly debated, the idea continues to enjoy wide application among academics and journalists. Bellah used civil religion to make sense of the turmoil of the 1960s, especially moral debates provoked by the Vietnam War. Now, a half-century later, American society is again riven by conflict over immigration, economic inequality, racial oppression, and "culture wars" issues. Is Bellah's hopeful assessment still useful for understanding contemporary America? If not, how should we think of it differently?Civil Religion Today reassesses the term to take stock of its usefulness after fifty years of engagement in the field. Looking both at the concept and at ground-level studies of how we might find civil religion in practice, this book aims to push the conversation forward, considering how and in what ways it is helpful in our current social and political context, evaluating which parts are worth keeping, which can be reformulated, and which can now be usefully discarded. It suggests we go "beyond Bellah" in theory and practice, thinking about American society in a new century