AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM AND POLITICAL RELIGION IN REPUBLICAN POLITICS TODAY

Mark Silk

The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 2012, vol. 10, issue 2, 33-40

Abstract: In the 2012 presidential race, the charge of disbelieving in American exceptionalism has become an effective rhetorical weapon wielded by conservatives and GOP candidates in particular. American exceptionalism has been joined to the Judeo-Christian tradition not as a traditional civil religion including Americans of all persuasions but as an exclusivist political religion, of which the Republican Party is the keeper of the flame. Far from embracing the ethos of e pluribus unum, this political religion demands obligatory and unconditional support, and condemns any perceived disrespect.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/15570274.2012.682516

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