Concepts in Motion
Daniela Hamann
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Concepts in Motion

Religion and Race in the Political Oratory of Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama

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This study explores how the concepts of religion and race shaped the political oratory of Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama and how the Presidents used their rhetoric as a tool to promote change, to unite and to convince. Regarding religion, the author of this study is employing a notion called American civil religion, as defined by Robert N. Bellah in his essay "Civil Religion in America" (1967). With regard to race, a theory is developed based on Bellah's American civil religion that is called American civil race. In the course of this study, the author is showing that Lincol...