Ray Haberski, “God and War: American Civil Religion Since 1945” (Rutgers UP, 2012)

Ray Haberski, “God and War: American Civil Religion Since 1945” (Rutgers UP, 2012): Americans are simultaneously one of the most religious people on earth and prone to conflict and war. Ray Haberski is interested in how this paradox has shaped the nation’s civil religion. His book, God and War: American Civil Religion Since 1945 (Rutg... by New Books in Religion

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