Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

9/1/1976 - 6/30/1977

Funding Totals

$15,000.00 (approved)
$15,000.00 (awarded)


American Jewish Theology and American Civil Religion

FAIN: FB-12756-76

Samuel D. Breslauer
University of Kansas, Lawrence (Lawrence, KS 66045-7505)

To study the influence American civil religion had on the writings of Arthur Cohen, will Herbert, Abraham Heschel, and the Robert Gordis and the contribution each of writers made toward its development. Through study of the American civil religion and its effects upon American Jewish life and through the relationship between the two can be clarified.