Modern Democracy as the Cult of the Individual: Durkheim on religious coexistence and conflict

After the demise of Christianity, Western society did not become secular, according to Emile Durkheim, but located foundations in a new religion he calls the "cult of the individual." This religion holds the rational individual person as sacred, and corresponds to a multi-faceted, complex,...

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Main Author: Carls, Paul (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Sage [2019]
In: Critical research on religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 7, Issue: 3, Pages: 292-311
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Durkheim, Émile 1858-1917 / Western world / Democracy / Individualism / Religion
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
VA Philosophy
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Multiculturalism
B Morality
B Death of God
B Democratic theory
B Political Liberalism
B Religious Pluralism
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