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Under the guise of humanistic atheism he has been building and strengthening the religious revolt behind the former Iron Curtain . The two most important were deemed too controversial for the religious climate of his time . “ Civil Religion ” , as it has been defined by sociologist Robert Bellah , is the religious tradition evident in the founding documents of our country , and in the language of presidents at important turning points in our history . This Harvard University project looks at the religious landscape of the US and how it has changed in the last few decades . The China Christian Council expressed its appreciation for the final text of the Tibet resolution passed at General Convention , 1997 , calling on China to meet with the Dalai Lama and to respect the religious tradition of the Tibetan people . Evidence for continuity in the religious landscape is also apparent . I agree that argument will not ( usually , there are exceptions ) move a creationist , because their personal commitments are to the religious tradition and community , not to science or knowledge of the physical world . With barely fifty years of experience as a sovereign state , the evolution of Israel 's civic culture , and the triangular relationship between democracy , the religious tradition , and policies on issues of war and peace , remain highly complex and very fluid . The major Transcendentalists on whose work I draw include Amos Bronson Alcott , Orestes Brownson , Ralph Waldo Emerson , Margaret Fuller , Theodore Parker , George Ripley , and Henry David Thoreau , all of whom knew each other and were instrumental in articulating the religious philosophy that received , early in its career , the pejorative epithet of " Transcendentalism . Across the country , then , the revivalists of the Second Great Awakening brought Evangelical Protestantism to the people and through their reorientation of Calvinist theology and practice irreversibly changed the religious landscape of the United States . " It seems that the religious tradition that will come to the rescue of American culture has been developed over several generations , going back all the way to the ancients of the late nineteenth century .