Civil religion

Jean-Jacques Rousseau said civil religion is the foundation that keeps modern society together. It gives the state a sacred authority. In his book The Social Contract Rousseau says the beliefs of civil religion are:

  1. Deity
  2. life to come
  3. the reward of virtue and the punishment of vice
  4. the exclusion of religious intolerance.

References

  1. ↑ Bellah, Robert Neelly (Winter 1967). "Civil Religion in America". Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 96 (1): 1–21. Archived from the original on 2005-03-06.
  2. ↑ Meyer-Dinkgrafe, Daniel (2004). European Culture in a Changing World: Between Nationalism and Globalism. Cambridge Scholars Press. ISBN 1-904303-33-1. p. 30
  3. ↑ Juergensmeyer, Mark (2003). Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-24011-1. p. 245
  4. ↑ Shanks, Andrew (2000). God and Modernity: A New and Better Way to Do Theology. Routledge (UK). ISBN 0-415-22188-9. p. 29