Early in 2014, scholar Diana Butler Bass reminded us of the phenomenon of American civil religion. Like other institutional forms of religious expression, she argued, it was being replaced with spirituality … an American civil spirituality.
Since that moment, I’ve been trying to answer a related question. What are the hymns, psalms, and spiritual songs of this civil spirituality?
This year’s general election is providing a rich soundscape for discovering just what they might be.
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