From civil to political religion : the intersection of culture, religion and politics / Marcela Cristi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cristi, Marcela, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil religion.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Bell

Contents:

Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 Theoretical Foundations; Chapter 2 American Civil Religion and the American Debate; Chapter 3 The "Problem" of Legitimacy, Power, and Politics; Chapter 4 State-Directed Civil Religions in Comparative Perspective; Chapter 5 Chile, 1973-1989: A Case Study; Chapter 6 Civil Religion and the Spirit of Nationalism; Conclusion: Durkheim versus Rousseau Revisited; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610925391

9781280925399

1280925396

9780889209381

0889209383

9780585456850

0585456852

OCLC:

753479480