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Apologia Americana.(Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion)(Book review)
Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion, by David Gelernter (Doubleday, 240 pp., $24.95)
AMERICA, Chesterton famously observed, is a nation with the soul of a church. The remark is often misunderstood as a comment on the ubiquity of religious profession and practice in the United States, but it was actually an insight into America's sense of itself. Chesterton recognized that Americans regard their country in religious terms--not merely in the intensity of their devotion, but also in their conviction that to belong is to profess a certain creed: "We hold these truths ..." Other nations may have myths and rituals, but America is unique in also having ...
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