Arlington National Cemetery, Memorial Day, and (*) John F. Kennedy's inaugural address are cited as examples of a form of this concept in a Robert Bellah text about its "civil" variety in America.
The silhouetted image of an Abu Ghraib prisoner was used as the cover art of a controversial Jon Pahl book about the relationship between this concept and the Origins of American Violence. One thinker argued that this concept evolves and gradually grows more differentiated over five stages, beginning with the Primitive stage and ending with the Modern stage. That thinker coined the term for a variety of this concept in a 1967 essay that splits a country's history into three "times of crisis." Arlington National Cemetery, Memorial Day, and (*) John F. Kennedy's inaugural address are cited as examples of a form of this concept in a Robert Bellah text about its "civil" variety in America. This concept is discussed in a book that argues Australian Aborigines increase their symbolic power through totems. For 10 points, name this concept that Durkheim defined as "a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things" in a book about elementary forms of this concept's life.
The silhouetted image of an Abu Ghraib prisoner was used as the cover art of a controversial Jon Pahl book about the relationship between this concept and the Origins of American Violence.
religion [or the American civil religion; or The Elementary Forms of Religious Experience; or Empire of Sacrifice: The  Religious Origins of American Violence; accept  Empire of Sacrifice before "this concept"; accept sacrifice before "evolves" is read]