Civil religion

Mediatization of Beliefs: The Adventism from “Morning Star” to the Public Sphere

“…Its presence in the public sphere, which was originally ideologically shaped in the Morning Star Lodge by William Miller before 1820, gains significance after 1832, in relation to what scholars refer to as "civil religion". originally initiated in the Morning Star Masonic Lodge in Poultney, Vermont 2 by William Miller,3 and then developed through the radicalization of what should be called the "civil religion" (Bellah 1967;Coleman 1970;Wimberley 1976;Gehrig 1981;Demerath and Williams 1985;Schieder 2009;Beiner 2010), the patrimonialization of the progressive populism of the millenarian imagination (Anthony and Robbins 1979;Cantor 1992;Bolner 1998), and the publicization of the prophetic secret (Champagne 1995;Cefaï and Pasquier 2003;Fanuzzi 2003;Freeman 2003;Ryfe 2006). To account for this, the article successively considers these three communicational conditions that brought Adventism back to the public in the 19th century.…”