Sentences with phrase «differentiated civil religion»

But pluralism in the Canadian case, unlike the American, has not aided in the development of a differentiated civil religion.

Both church and state are unitary in Mexico, whatever the difficulty in linking them or mediating the linkage through a differentiated civil religion.

It does seem, however, from Chapters 3 and 4, that we take the differentiated civil religion as at least a hypothetical norm for modern society and seek to explain the conditions that may block its emergence in the case of such societies as Mexico and Italy.

It justified a strong normative concern for the common good that was implied in the symbolism of the differentiated civil religion.

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Nevertheless, religious faith often plays a prominent part in the discussion, differentiating liberal civil religion from purely secular or humanist beliefs.

That is, civil religion not only reflects our past and serves (as Durkheim might have argued) to promote domestic cohesion but also serves to differentiate us from our competitors and buttress our identity within the wider global culture.

Bellah maintains that this function continues to be performed largely through the application of religious values — not through the institutionalized church but through the culturally differentiated set of religious symbols he calls the civil religion.

In that influential article Bellah argued «that there actually exists alongside of and rather clearly differentiated from the churches an elaborate and well institutionalized civil religion in America.»

Fairly distinct types of solution to the religio - political problem (Or fairly distinct types of civil religion) seem to correlate with the phases of religious evolution as I have described them.3 In primitive society neither politics nor religion is very well differentiated, so there is not much point in talking about the relationship between them.