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From civil to political religion : the intersection of culture, religion and politics
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ISBN: 0889203687 9780889203686 Year: 2001 Publisher: Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier university press,

From civil to political religion
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ISBN: 1280925396 9786610925391 0889209383 0585456852 9780585456850 0889203687 9780889203686 9781280925399 Year: 2001 Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. Wilfrid Laurier University Press

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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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