To explain their dubious prominence, lawyers like the notion that the law has become America's civic religion.

Rabbi Gold said that faith in American society, what he calls "civic religion," was shattered during that decade.

Many cultures espouse "civic religions" that encourage popular veneration of national icons and ideals.

It's excessive expectations, driven and fueled by the civic religion of romance.

Love of the Redskins is something like a civic religion here, a religion that most people are assumed to share.

He has a sure command of the terms of the American civic religion.

The option of turning the Holocaust into a kind of civic religion was not really there for young Poles.

The Roman influence was most apparent in the areas of civic religion and administration.

He claimed that it was not a big step from Christian belief systems to modern civic religions such as nationalism.

We live at a time when the market is the closest thing we have to a civic religion.