Sentences with phrase «shifting civil religion»

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Interest thus shifts to the conditions that allow and / or encourage an independent civil religion.

Conceived in this fashion the study of civil religion shifts some distance out of the Durkheim camp, where it has generally been.

The autonomous person, liberated from the constraints of the past and free perhaps even from the stigma of social disapproval of his chosen lifestyle, has become the new god of the Canadian civil religion, almost totally eclipsing whatever communitarian elements have managed to survive the cultural shifts of recent decades.