From Civil to Political Religion : the Intersection of Culture, Religion and Politics.
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 relig...
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Waterloo :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
2006
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