In the article T.Zinkevich "Beginnings and the essence of civil religion" the question of the beginnings of civil religion and the peculiarity of this phenomenon are studied. It is proved that civil religion is a socio-cultural phenomenon, in which, through the prism of a peculiar religious language and specific practices, the ultimate determination of the establishment and confirmation of a national state, which originates from the need of the community to find sacred in a transcendental, eternally linear, grounded in history territories, rank.