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America’s New Religions & the Cult of Self-Making | Tara Isabella Burton

Hidden Forces

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The Implicit Civil Religion of Modernity

I want to argue that the kind of spiritual and metaphysical assumptions of loosely described modernity have basically coalesced into an implicit civil religion. And so I'm exploring that in a few different ways historically and sociologically. There is obvious you do you be your best self, do what serves you. Let go of toxic negativity. Don't be repressed in this very particular way. These are unspoken assumptions that I think govern a new way of life in tandem with and sometimes instead of traditional religious values and practices.

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