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Book Review: III. Historical—Theological Studies: Public Religion in American Culture

Civil Religion, that term coined by Rousseau, has been a frequent topic of recent analysts of American religion. Robert Bellah, Sidney Mead, Will Herberg, and others have produced a wide verity of analyses regarding the nature of America's "public" faith. Professor John F. Wilson of Princeton University links these studies with specific issues in American culture. He believes that America has known numerous civil religions which ebb and flow with specific events. His concern is to determine what "cultural materials" help to determine the nature of American civil religion. Wilson seeks these materials in such public ex­ pressions as the religious language used by American presidents, the rituals of American public life, and the religious significance of com­ munity life. Civil religions come and go in America, Wilson says, and the possibility now exists for the develop­ ment of a more permanent "American civil cult."