American identity crisis: attack to American civil religion & trans-Westerness risk

Abstract

This is a philosophical & socio-cultural History of American identity configuration and development, by religion (lato sense: traditional religion, civil religion and political or ideological religion), as a connecting thread and social methamer. By this way, the inquiry into the American identity is possible: what is the American being and how does it materialize? What does it relate and link to its realization? How does it interact with others and what is its meaning and scope of the transcendent and sacred? In that sense, it reviews the main native ontologies, epistemologies and axiologies (those filtered by its Americaness), and it places them according to their religious cycles of social awakenings and revitalizations of elites. In this way, an inventory is made of the main and most defining ideas, beliefs and institutions, with their characters and sustaining movements, which have made the United States of America (USA) the country it is (a nation with the soul of a church), singling it out in front of others peoples (from the most western to the leader of the West).