The Politics of the Sacred in America

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Postures of Piety and Protest: American Civil Religion and the Politics of Kneeling in the NFL

“…As Bellah (Bellah [1967] 2005) maintains, the president is pivotal to articulating and perpetuating civil religion. Anthony Squiers elaborates by highlighting the importance of the executive branch to consolidating the civil religious vision that propels a particular candidate to the presidency amid our ongoing "politics of the sacred" (Squiers 2018). As representatives of divergent civil religious visions, both Barack Obama's and Donald Trump's responses bear closer analysis.…”