American civil religion is built on Biblical archetypes of chosenness and promised land.
Evidence
As Bellah points out, American identity is rooted in a sense of divine agency and Christian destiny. “Behind the civil religion at every point lie Biblical archetypes: Exodus, Chosen People, Promised Land, New Jerusalem, Sacrificial Death and Rebirth. But it is also genuinely American and genuinely new.” — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 569
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Bellah’s civil religion — later used as template for how the monster-image gets national legitimacy; connects to Jefferson/Lincoln speeches cited here.
Related
- American colonial identity was built from medieval Christian and biblical archetypes (similarity 0.88)
- American colonists founded a new identity on medieval Christian destiny and Anglo-Saxon mythology. (similarity 0.80)
- American national identity rests on a White Protestant chosen-people myth. (similarity 0.79)