Abstract
The enlightenment ideas developed the shape of a new religion which is named “Civil Religion.” The history of the USA is the creation of divine prudence: the presidents of the USA can be examined in this perspective as ‘prophets’, and the Independence Declaration and the composition as ‘religious texts’ of a civil religion in anniversaries like the ‘Thanksgiving’ and the ‘Memorial Day’, personal rights and the families are ritually combined into civil religion. “Religion of Civilians or the Religion of Bourgeois, everything is private in a political religion or the religion of civilians and it vividly distributes duties within the sphere of religious dominancy and political public life. “The Religion of Politics, political religion or the religion of politics has the approach of civil religion providing the ways for an authoritarian ideology, and to substitute the existing sacred societies and mores—one remembers the state’s rites and compound erected by the National Collectivism.” As per the Brill Lexicon of Religion “the dissertation of the civil religion is imaginable only in the perspective of modernism, the ‘parting of the church & the state’, and even the request for liberation of the religion.
Hafiz Muhammad Abdul Qayyum. (2021) Civil Religion and its Relationship to Global Theology, Pakistan Journal of Islamic Research, Volume No. 22, 01.
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