From Civil to Political Religion: The Intersection of Culture, Religion and PoliticsWilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2001 M08 23 - 293 páginas Prompted by the shattering of the bonds between religion and the political order brought about by the Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques Rousseau devised a “new” religion (civil religion) to be used by the state as a way of enforcing civic unity. Emile Durkheim, by contrast, conceived civil religion to be a spontaneous phenomenon arising from society itself — a non-coercive force expressing the self-identify or self-definition of a people. In 1967, the American sociologist Robert Bellah rediscovered the concept and applied it to American society in its Durkheimian form. Ever since Bellah’s publication, most authors have sought to explain civil religion in terms of an alleged “spontaneous” integrative role for society. They have emphasized the religious and cultural dimension of the concept, but failed to give due consideration to its political-ideological foundations. Thus, the coercive potential of civil religion has received little attention or has been wrongly relegated to Third World countries. Cristi provides a critique of the civil religion thesis, and identifies the most basic deficiencies of literature on this topic. By contrasting Bellah’s Durkheimian conception with Rousseau’s original formulation, the author discloses the dubious conceptual and empirical basis of the former. She demonstrates the need to rethink Bellah’s thesis in the light of a reinterpretation of Rousseau’s and Durkheim’s classical approaches, and substantiates her critique with a brief comparative survey of state-directed civil religions, and with an informative case study of civil religion in Pinochet’s Chile. |
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... concept , and whether it could be considered a religion or not ( Gehrig , 1981a : 51 ; 1981b : 1 ) . After the publication of Bellah's article , the sociological landscape ( particularly the sociology of religion ) divided in two camps ...
... concept , Wilson notes ( 1986 : 111 ) , “ concerns the possibility that specific social and cultural beliefs , behaviors , and institutions constitute a positive religion concerned with civil order in the society . ” This definition ...
... concepts and theo- retical logic characteristic of the Durkheimian tradition are of limited use when we try to understand how civil religion works . Hammond , for example , locates civil religion in the 5 Introduction.
... concept, we need to stop conceiving it in exclusively Durkheimian terms—as something that springs spontaneously from the cul- ture itself, and spontaneously binds people together. The notion of civil religion needs to be framed at a ...
... concept . What follows is a more detailed analysis of their theoretical positions . Rousseau on Civil Religion Rousseau's notion of civil religion has to be placed in the context of his broader theoretical preoccupation with legitimacy ...
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Chapter 3 The Problem of Legitimacy Power and Politics | 91 |
Chapter 4 StateDirected Civil Religions in Comparative Perspective | 135 |
A Case Study | 165 |
Chapter 6 Civil Religion and the Spirit of Nationalism | 187 |
Durkheim versus Rousseau Revisited | 223 |
Notes | 243 |
References | 265 |
Index | 285 |
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