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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... means of public rituals and collective cer- emonies . In so doing , beliefs and behaviours , acquire a “ reli- gious ” dimension . As such , civil religion may be considered a belief system or , a surrogate religion , that expresses the ...
... means that they are dis- tinguishable conceptually but cannot be separated in reality . Thus conceptualized , civil religion may be seen either as a phe- nomenon expressing an inward conviction on the part of mem- bers of a certain ...
... means that priests are tempted to usurp temporal authority for themselves , and to this extent undercut the established authority of the state ” ( Beiner , 1993 : 618 ) .5 Finally , Rousseau speaks of the religion of man , or ...
... means that “the General Will of the State is final in rela- tion to its own citizens ” (Cole, 1973: xxxiv-vi). In other words, Rousseau's perception of the ideal citizen is that of an individual “completely absorbed by the state” (Noone ...
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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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