Mr Carver's analysis is right on target, although I do not know why earlier actors such as Jefferson and Hamilton were excluded from the list of exemplars. I would also recognize that Election Day is the civil religion's concrete and personal Mass, in which respectable people participate in a sacrament expressing their personal unity with the faith.
Mr Carver's analysis is
Mr Carver's analysis is right on target, although I do not know why earlier actors such as Jefferson and Hamilton were excluded from the list of exemplars. I would also recognize that Election Day is the civil religion's concrete and personal Mass, in which respectable people participate in a sacrament expressing their personal unity with the faith.