But that is only within the context of American civil religion.

American religion is not a relic of the past but a response to the present.

America's elites must come to understand American religion, past and present, more deeply.

We also learn that being happy constitutes the American secular religion.

The result, for anybody who wants to understand the growing public role of American religion, is a book to reckon with.

Can even a wonderful cross section of the best and the brightest in American religion suddenly function as a team?

Phillips starts this section by tracing the history of American religion.

In Native American religion the land they worship on is very important.

No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist.

I think that's good in American religion, because it means that they're taking it seriously.