Is Wokeism Civil Religion?
Is Wokeism Civil Religion? A response to @carefreewandering's take of Wokeism as civil religion + German-style guilt-pride. I look at Robert Bellah's article 'Civil Religion in America' and take a look at free-speech, dogmatism, cancel culture, and more.
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Sources
R. Bellah, Civil Religion in America
Eric Berhowisz, Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West From the Ancients to Fake News
James Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974
Jeffrey Adam Sachs, “There Is No Campus Free Speech Crisis: A Close Look at the Evidence,” Niskanen Center, April 27, 2018, https://www.niskanencenter.org/there-...
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