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It is evident that more the majority of the people of a society are attached to the Social and political Laws and regard them sacred the more they accept them. Human beings observe special rites to show their devotion to the sacred beliefs. A set of these sacred beliefs along with external symbols of them is called the civil religion of a society. We can find it in ancient Greece and Rome, and then in the works of many sociologists and political philosophers such as Rousseau and Durkheim. In modern age, Robert Bella, the American sociologist, claimed that he has discovered another religion besides Christianity but separated from it in the United States. Its basis was the sacredness of civil laws, individuals and related documents. He called this phwnimenon civil religion. This paper wants to study critically the root and beliefs of civil religion.