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The essays engage with a wide variety of textual sources in many different languages and scripts from Egypt and the Near East spanning more than a millennium

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Civil Religion Today JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Values & Virtues " The Ruins is aMoves 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