Some Critics Have Attempted to Eliminate All Vestiges of Civil

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Multiple Choice

Some critics have attempted to eliminate all vestiges of civil religion from public life.However,sociologist Robert Bellah,who has studied civil religion extensively,argues that:

• A)civil religion is the same thing as Christianity
• B)civil religion is limited to affirmations of loyalty and patriotism that members of any religion can accept
• C)pure religion is trivialized by civil religion
• D)those who do not believe in the existence of God can still believe in civil religion

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Definitions:

Different Responses

Variations in reactions or behaviors exhibited by individuals when exposed to the same stimuli or situations, influenced by personal, cultural, or situational factors.

Stimulus Generalization

A process in classical conditioning by which a response that originally occurs to a specific stimulus also occurs to different, but similar, stimuli.

Conditioned to Fear

The process by which individuals learn to fear certain objects, people, or situations due to previous experiences of association with negative outcomes.

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a previously extinguished conditioned response after a pause.