This is a book on a social theory of religion and culture. A survey
of the meanings of the term religion from Columbus to Jonathan Z.
Smith sets the pace. Examples are taken from ethnography, the
ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman age, and Christendom in order to
develop the concepts of imagined world, social formation, mythic
grammar, and cultural mentality. What has been learned from the
study of other peoples and their religions about the function of
myths and rituals is then applied to an analysis of the Christian
myth-ritual system and its social logic. The odd combinations of
mythic world and ritual presence, monotheism and sovereignty,
righteousness and power, all peculiar to Christianity, are analyzed
historically and followed into the twenty-first century. This study
offers a meditation on the recent public discourse about the
Christian nation in light of the current social situation in the
United States and ends with an invitation to rethink the role of
religions in constructing a polycultural social democracy.
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