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Embattled We Are - Ryan O'Leary

Embattled We Are

How America’s Leaders Use Civil Religion to Justify War?

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Buch | Hardcover
2026
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
9783032143686 (ISBN)
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This book offers an examination of the intersection of American civil religion, religious nationalism, and American militarism. Tracing civil-religious themes like American chosenness, America's place in the unfolding design of Providence, the dedication to freedom at home and abroad, and the memory of the soldier s sacrifice. This book analyses the speeches of American presidents from Washington and Lincoln to Kennedy, Reagan, Bush, and Obama, showing how they have consistently used these themes to justify and promote American militarism. Contributing to the growing body of scholarship on American civil religion by conceptually demarcating American civil religion, religious nationalism, and Christian nationalism. This adds a dimension of cultural analysis to some existing works that approach similar topics. It is an interesting read for scholars of civil religion.

Ryan T. O Leary, Ph.D., is a Wisconsin native who enjoys exploring that state s unique landscape by trail and kayak. He lives in Marshfield, Wisconsin, with his wife Doreen and their three sweet, spoiled, and sassy cats, Priscilla, Pixel, and Scully. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, where he studied philosophical theology and modern religious thought, and he has been teaching with the University of Wisconsin in Stevens Point for over a decade, where he has won awards for his teaching and scholarship. Dr. O Leary s current research takes place at the intersection of religion, American culture, and political discourse. His publications on American civil religion include From Anglo-Saxon Nativism to Executive Order: Civil Religion and Anti-Immigration Rhetoric, The Irony of the Secular: Violent Communication at the Limits of Tolerance, and The Freedom Narrative and the War on Terror: Civil-Religious Idolatry for the 9/11 Generation. This is his first book.

Chapter  1. American Civil Religion & Nationalist Idolatry.- Chapter 2. The Logic of Colonization & Conquest.- Chapter 3.  The Birth of Militant Nationalism.- Chapter 4. Religious Nationalism in the Late Revolutionary Era.- Chapter 5.  A Militant Destiny.- Chapter 6. The Birth of an American Empire.- Chapter 7. Tightening Foreign Entanglements in a Time of Transitions.- Chapter 8. American Millennialism & the Cold War Mission.- Chapter 9. Imperial Destiny & Domestic Counterinsurgency.- Chapter 10. Morning in America.- Chapter 11. The Terrorists Hate Our Freedom.- Chapter 12. Civil Religion in the American Carnage.- Chapter 13. The Fourth Time of Trial.- Chapter 14. American Myth & Unfolding Providence.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 22.5.2026
Zusatzinfo Approx. 300 p.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte Civil Religion • Militarism • Peace and Conflict Studies • religious nationalism • war
ISBN-13 9783032143686 / 9783032143686
Zustand Neuware
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