a process of becoming, and to taking responsibility for the political vision toward which I, joined I hope, with others, strive". See also American exceptionalism American's Creed "And I don't care what it is", Dwight Eisenhower quote from 1952 Arlington National Cemetery Ceremonial deism Commemoration of the American Revolution Confucian ritual religion Constitutionalism Gettysburg Address Imperial cult Independence Hall Judeo-Christian ethics Liberty Bell Moralistic therapeutic deism Religious Confucianism Republicanism in the United States Secular Shrine Theory Statolatry References Sources Further reading From the issue entitled Religion in America. Gardella, Peter, American Civil Religion: What Americans Hold Sacred (Oxford University Press, 2014), 368 pp. Gorski, Philip. American Covenant: A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the Present (Princeton University Press, 2017) excerpt Page 328 specifically talks about American civil religion, referencing Jones's book, American Civil Religion. McCarthy, Rockne. "Civil Religion in Early America," Fides et Historia, Summer 1975, 8#1 pp 20–40, covers 1800-1900 Pierard, Richard V. and Robert D. Linder, "The President and Civil Religion," in Encyclopedia of the American Presidency ed. by Leonard W. Levy and Louis Fisher, (1994), I: 203-06. Richey, Russell E., and Donald G. Jones, eds. American Civil Religion (1974), articles by scholars Rouner, Leroy S. ed. Civil Religion and Political Theology (1986). Sassi, Jonathan D. A Republic of Righteousness: The Public Christianity of the Post-Revolutionary New England Clergy (Oxford University Press, 2001). online Swatos, William H. "Civil Religion," in Encyclopedia of Religion and Society (1998) online Historiography Fenn, Richard K. "The Relevance of Bellah's 'Civil Religion' Thesis to a Theory of Secularization," Social Science History, Fall 1977, 1#4 pp 502–517 Gedicks, Frederick. "American Civil Religion: an Idea Whose Time Is Past," The George Washington International Law Review Volume: 41. Issue: 4. 2010. pp 891+. online Lindner, Robert D. "Civil Religion in Historical Perspective: The Reality that Underlies the Concept," Journal of Church and State, Summer 1975, 17#3 pp 399–421, focus on European theorists McDermott, Gerald Robert. "Civil Religion in the American Revolutionary Period: An Historiographic Analysis," Christian Scholar's Review, April 1989, 18#4 pp 346–362 Mathisen, James A.; Bellah, Robert N. "Twenty Years after Bellah: Whatever Happened to American Civil Religion?," Sociological Analysis, April 1989, 50#2, pp 129–146 online Sociology of religion Religion and society in the United States American studies Ethnocentrism Foreign relations of the United States Civil Religion Religious nationalism