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The "Peculiar Children" of the Nation

其他書名	American Civil Religion at Antebellum West Point
出版	Florida State University, 2011
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=n-s_nwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋ABSTRACT: This thesis examines the history of antebellum West Point, tracing connections between the religious atmosphere of the Academy and the political ideology which it inculcated into cadets. A central claim of this essay is that the Revival of 1826 cemented a distinctly religious rhetoric as the operating ideology of West Point. This ideology held that the defense and maintenance of the sovereignty of the United States was to be cadets' primary objective. Cadets were taught that defending American sovereignty constituted a divine mandate incumbent upon them as students of West Point. Finally, a key goal of this essay has been to ground "civil religion" in sources particular to this essay in the hope of reworking the concept for broader use in American religious history.