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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... issue of Daedalus , Robert N. Bellah affirmed : “ few have real- ized that there actually exists alongside of and rather clearly differentiated from the churches an elaborate and well institutionalized civil religion in America ” ( 1967 ...
... issue , neither Bellah nor the most representative scholars in this field ( such as John Coleman or Phillip Hammond , among others ) have restricted their focus to the United States . Expressions of the civil religion phenomenon have ...
... issue, or to start their publica- tions with remarkably similar sentences, acknowledging that Rousseau coined the term civil religion. They then take a solidly Durkheimian approach (see, e.g., Bourg 1976: 141; Coleman, 1969: 67; 7 ...
... issues of power and conflict associated with the problem of order. In short, the overemphasis given to the Durkheimian concep- tion of civil religion has left the civil religion thesis open to fun- damental criticism. This book ...
... ), I contend that we need to confront the issue of the imposed nature of civil religion as well (Rousseau's idea). Western democracies, characterized by a high degree of pluralism and institu- tional 10 From Civil to Political Religion.
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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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