'One nation under God': the pledge of allegiance as a ritual practice in American civil religion

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dc.contributor.authorWanamaker, Pamela Christine Mansiren_ZA
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dc.date.issued1988en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: pages 103-109.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis document suggests and then illustrates a neglect in the study of American civil religious ritual. It argues that a primary carrier for American civil religion has been the public school system and that one vehicle used in the task of perpetuating the American identity has been the civil religious ritual of saying the Pledge of Allegiance which most American school children routinely perform at the start of each school day. The methodological approach used in this study of the Pledge ritual is a process analysis formulated by Ronald Grimes which combines the concern of sociology with that of history. Three key questions are dealt with: the process of change (a historical study); the social process effecting the ritual (this centers on the legal conflicts) and the processes which the ritual affect (this concentrates on grassroots responses to the ritual and the power, positive or negative, which it generates. The negative power behind the ritual is a dynamic force which has left its mark in the legislature of the country and in the attitude of the adult population towards the Pledge of Allegiance. This paper identifies and explains four motivators which underlie much of the ritual processing, namely, consensus, conflict, crisis and control. It concludes that the Pledge of Allegiance ritual is a dynamic force which reflects the growth and development of the civil-religious dimension of the American nation.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationWanamaker, P. C. M. (1988). <i>'One nation under God': the pledge of allegiance as a ritual practice in American civil religion</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Religious Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15884en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationWanamaker, Pamela Christine Mansir. <i>"'One nation under God': the pledge of allegiance as a ritual practice in American civil religion."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Religious Studies, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15884en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationWanamaker, P. 1988. 'One nation under God': the pledge of allegiance as a ritual practice in American civil religion. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Wanamaker, Pamela Christine Mansir AB - This document suggests and then illustrates a neglect in the study of American civil religious ritual. It argues that a primary carrier for American civil religion has been the public school system and that one vehicle used in the task of perpetuating the American identity has been the civil religious ritual of saying the Pledge of Allegiance which most American school children routinely perform at the start of each school day. The methodological approach used in this study of the Pledge ritual is a process analysis formulated by Ronald Grimes which combines the concern of sociology with that of history. Three key questions are dealt with: the process of change (a historical study); the social process effecting the ritual (this centers on the legal conflicts) and the processes which the ritual affect (this concentrates on grassroots responses to the ritual and the power, positive or negative, which it generates. The negative power behind the ritual is a dynamic force which has left its mark in the legislature of the country and in the attitude of the adult population towards the Pledge of Allegiance. This paper identifies and explains four motivators which underlie much of the ritual processing, namely, consensus, conflict, crisis and control. It concludes that the Pledge of Allegiance ritual is a dynamic force which reflects the growth and development of the civil-religious dimension of the American nation. DA - 1988 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1988 T1 - 'One nation under God': the pledge of allegiance as a ritual practice in American civil religion TI - 'One nation under God': the pledge of allegiance as a ritual practice in American civil religion UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15884 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/15884
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationWanamaker PCM. 'One nation under God': the pledge of allegiance as a ritual practice in American civil religion. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Religious Studies, 1988 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15884en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Religious Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherAllegiance - United Statesen_ZA
dc.subject.otherCivil religion - United Statesen_ZA
dc.subject.otherEducation and state - United Statesen_ZA
dc.title'One nation under God': the pledge of allegiance as a ritual practice in American civil religionen_ZA
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