But what I propose here is that Elvis's shaking hips and curled lips unleashed two conflicting religious cultures that pitted Christian cultural authority, charisma, and institutions against sacred popular cultures with multiple sources of authority, potent forms of charisma, and a preference for experience and insight over dogma and institutions.
The glory of modern science is that, while only a very few can understand its particular theories, anyone can understand its peculiar approach - it is simply the perpetual assertion of experience over authority, and of debate over dogma.
Often speaking here more as a pastor than as the vicar of Christ, he emphasizes moral sincerity over dogma, an understanding of the complexities of the world and individual experience over rigid doctrine.
The telescope has definitely changed our perception of the universe, leading to the Copernican Revolution, when science and reason triumphed over dogma.
And most Afghans are interested in spending time with their families and getting rich, not in praying and obsessing over dogma.
But imagine a Britain in which factual information prevails over dogma; a Britain where cannabis is fully legalised.
The Discovery Institute that promotes the idea of intelligent design said the board had chosen science over dogma.
As an advocate for sound, sane drug policy and HIV prevention, I hope that his inauguration will mark a change to an administration that chooses science over dogma.
This struggle, he believed, had led Americans to value practicality and pragmatism over theory and dogma, action over thought, and experience over tradition.
Our new way of being religious may seem chaotic, as most new things do, but it coheres around certain elements: individual choice over institutional decree; inner experience over creed; reason and evidence over faith and dogma; unity and pluralism over separation and tribalism.
