Perspectives on Civil Religion

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"Cover" -- "Half Title" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Preface" -- "Introduction: the concept of civil religion" -- "Chapter 1 'Lest we forget': British and American rituals of remembrance as civil religion" -- "Chapter 2 Public monuments and private grief: war graves, war memorials and personal pilgrimage" -- "Chapter 3 'To heal a nation?' Civil religion and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial" -- "Chapter 4 'Dedicated to the Virgin': civil religion and Sienese devotion to the Madonna" -- "Chapter 5 'Unity in diversity': civil religion and the Palio of Siena" -- "Chapter 6 Images of civic devotion: Palio drappelloni and Sienese civil religion" -- "Chapter 7 'Sacred and profane': popular rituals in Sienese civil religion" -- "Conclusion: civil religion reconsidered" -- "Glossary of Sienese words