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100 1 $aCristi, Marcela,$d1940-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2001090711
245 10 $aFrom civil to political religion :$bthe intersection of culture, religion and politics /$cMarcela Cristi.
260 $aWaterloo, Ont. :$bWilfrid Laurier University Press,$c[2001], ©2001.
300 $avi, 293 pages ;$c23 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-283) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tTheoretical Foundations.$tOne European Pedigree, Two Different Traditions.$tRousseau on Civil Religion.$tRousseau's Ideal Citizen.$tDurkheim on Civil Religion.$tReligion, Social Order, and the State --$gCh. 2.$tAmerican Civil Religion and the American Debate.$tThe Rebirth of Civil Religion.$tSetting the Ground Rules.$tCivil Religion as a Source of Integration.$tOther Voices of Dissent.$tCivil Religion as a Source of Legitimation --$gCh. 3.$tThe "Problem" of Legitimacy, Power, and Politics.$tThe Intellectual Roots of the Problem.$tLegitimacy in Sociological Theory.$tReligion and Legitimation Today.$tThe Invisibility of Power.$tThe Consensus Legacy and Its Problems.$tCivil Religion: Its Agents and Structural Support --$gCh. 4.$tState-Directed Civil Religions in Comparative Perspective.$tCivil Religion as Political Religion.$tSacred and Secular Civil Religions.$tFrom "Archaic" to "Modern" Civil Religions.$tReligion as a Society-Oriented Institution --$gCh. 5.$tChile, 1973-1989: A Case Study.
505 80 $tPinochet's Civil Religious Discourse.$tPinochet's Civil Religion and the Catholic Church.$tAnalysis of Pinochet's Civil Religion.$tChilean Civil Religion in Comparative Perspective --$gCh. 6.$tCivil Religion and the Spirit of Nationalism.$tNationalism as a Civic Duty.$tNationalism in the United States.$tThe Structural Ambivalence of Civil Religion.$tConclusion: Durkheim versus Rousseau Revisited.
520 1 $a"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.
520 8 $aIn 1967, the American sociologist Robert Bellah rediscovered the concept and applied it to American society in its Durkheimian form.".
520 8 $a"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.".
520 8 $a"Cristi provides a critique of the civil religion thesis, and identifies the most basic deficiencies of the 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.
520 8 $aShe demonstrates the need to rethink Bellah's thesis in the light of a reinterpretation of Rousseau 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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aCivil religion.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85026369
650 6 $aReligion civile.
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