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Autore |
Cristi Marcela <1940-> |
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Titolo |
From civil to political religion [[electronic resource] ] : the intersection of culture, religion and politics / / Marcela Cristi |
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Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2001 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-92539-6 |
9786610925391 |
0-88920-938-3 |
0-585-45685-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (300 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Civil religion |
Religion |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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