Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Tocqueville ed. by Steven Frankel and Martin D. Yaffe (review).

  • Published In: Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2023, v. 56, n. 2. P. 336 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Walsh, Ashley 3 of 3

Abstract

The study of civil religion owes much to the seminal scholarship of the sociologist, Robert Bellah, who wrote of America's "broken covenant" and the interfaith hostilities of "uncivil religion." Classically, the structure of the book takes its cue from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who coined the term "civil religion" in chapter 8 of Book IV of I The Social Contract i (1762), in which he referred to Niccolò Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes. In Britain, by contrast, civil religion is primarily associated with the history of political thought and is more ensnared in debates about how seriously intellectual historians take religion. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Eighteenth-Century Studies. 2023/01, Vol. 56, Issue 2, p336
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0013-2586
  • DOI:10.1353/ecs.2023.0023
  • Accession Number:162635014
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