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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... Order , and the State Chapter 2 American Civil Religion and the American Debate The Rebirth of Civil Religion Setting the Ground Rules Civil Religion as a Source of Integration Other Voices of Dissent Civil Religion as a Source of ...
... political order . Civil religion tends to sacralize certain aspects of civic life by means of public rituals and collective cer- emonies . In so doing , beliefs and behaviours , acquire a “ reli- gious ” dimension . As such , civil ...
... political resource , a form of external compulsion or force used to support an existing political order . In the former case , civil religion is assumed to be a “ cultural given ” ( Demerath , 1994 : 113 ) or an “ emergent property of ...
... order, stability, and integration of the society as a whole. In Durkheim's terms, civil religion acts upon the individual. Although Bellah mentions Rousseau, he has been strongly influenced by Durkheim. Most students of civil religion ...
... structure, political regime, and even historical circumstances. As I indicate in chapters 2 and 3, the Bellah tradition neither considers the pos- sibility that the state (or its political and intellectual leaders) may shape the ...
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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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