Abstract

Most sociologists of religion agree that traditional Jewish and Christian institutions do not encompass the total of significant meanings and ultimate commitments in middle class America. “Religion” defined in such “generic” terms includes a broader realm of phenomena. But the exact analysis of this broader realm, variously called “non-church religion”, “civil religion”, “non-traditional religion”, “the sacred”, and other names, has been perplexing.1 Sociologists have made little progress on it.

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