American Civil Religion: The Great Awakening

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American Civil Religion, moreover, is a religion born entirely from politics. It got its start at the point in the American history when phenomenon called the Great Awakening swept across the nation. This phenomenon began as a spiritual revival in the American colonies. The outcomes of this Great Awakening is that individual churches were divided among skeptics and revivalists. This caused the notion of civil religion to come into existence, hence, Americans who used to be united by churches were now looking to politics and government for unification. Civil religion, that is to say, gave Americans a creed, code and a culture. Therefore, it was a way to bring everyone together as one in a nation that need a national