scholarly journals Procession as a Literary Motif: The Intersection of Religious and National Symbolism in Italian Narrative (Nineteenth–Twentieth Centuries)

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 107-146
Author(s):  
Jenny Ponzo
Keyword(s):  
Church And State ◽  
Civil Religion ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Literary Representation ◽  
Religious Symbols ◽  
Italian Culture ◽  
Founding Myth

National imagery developed as a secular substitute for religion, and in modern society, there has been a ‘transfer’ of sacredness from religion to politics. This paper focuses on Italy, where, despite the legal separation of church and state, the ‘sacral’ national apparatus still owes a considerable debt to religion. After a short exposition of some of the main theories of civil religion in Italy, this work will analyze a corpus of Italian novels set during the Risorgimento, a period that functions in Italian culture as an atypical founding myth. It will show in particular how civil and religious symbols and rituals intersect in the literary representation of processions. Indeed, the procession is a recurring motif in Italian narrative and presents peculiar aesthetic features. The analysis of this literary motif will take advantage of socio-anthropological theories and will trace a distinction between ordered and disordered, or enthusiastic, processions.

scholarly journals Fundamentalisme Islam: Gejala Ketidakmampuan dalam Merespon Makna Zaman

SIASAT ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
Moh. Shofan
Keyword(s):  
Civil Religion ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Religious Fundamentalism ◽  
Religious Symbols ◽  
Modern Age

The phenomenon of religious fundamentalism and terrorism become a very serious threat to modern society. Religiosity in the modern age is expected by the western intellectuals as 'civil religion' is far from reality. Precisely pattern that emerges is religious fundamentalism and reinforced the use of religious symbols which for fundamentalists, not only identity, but more than that, a symbol of resistance.

The Invention of Criminal Blasphemy: Rex v. Taylor (1676)

2008 ◽  
Vol 103 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elliott Visconsi
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Religion ◽  
The Common

This article provides an account of the emergence of the common law jurisdiction over blasphemy, arguing that the blasphemy laws first developed in Rex v. Taylor had an explicitly secular purpose. Instead of understanding this crucial decision as an emblem of the early modern fusion of church and state, this article reads Sir Matthew Hale's axiom that "Christianity is parcel of the laws of England" as a step toward the emergence of an English civil religion.

Civil Religion and Church and State*

1979 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
Ronald C. Wimberley ◽  
James A. Christenson
Keyword(s):  
Church And State ◽  
Civil Religion

Civil Religion and Church and State

1980 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald C. Wimberley ◽  
James A. Christenson
Keyword(s):  
Church And State ◽  
Civil Religion

The Establishment Clause

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-94
Author(s):  
Howard Gillman ◽  
Erwin Chemerinsky
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Establishment Clause ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Religious Symbols ◽  
Government Aid ◽  
Financial Benefits ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Government

Over the last few decades, there have been three competing views of the meaning of the Establishment Clause held by members of the Supreme Court. One, favored by the liberal justices, is that the Establishment Clause should be understood as creating a wall separating church and state. An alternative view, favored by the conservative justices, is that there should be “accommodation” between religion and government. Under this view, the government violates the Establishment Clause only if it creates a church, coerces religious participation, or discriminates among religions in giving financial benefits. A third position is that the government acts unconstitutionally if it endorses religion or a specific religion. The chapter argues that separation is the best view of the Establishment Clause and applies this to prayers at government activities, religious symbols on government property, and government aid to religious institutions.

scholarly journals INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF MODELS OF DIALOGUE BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE IN WESTERN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-503
Author(s):  
Nikolai S. Shchyokin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
State Interaction ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Modern World ◽  
European Culture ◽  
New Formulation ◽  
The Church

The theocratic models of dialogue between church and state were reconstructed. The central problem of the article is the explication of emergence of the socio-historical situation that once again called for a new formulation of the traditional problem of the church and state interaction as a significant resource for achieving a social consensus and a successful development of society as a whole. The strategy of socio-dynamics of modern society is substantiated, in which the constant and constructive church and state interaction should be considered as a necessary and unique resource for its civilizational capabilities to successfully resolve both global and regional-local problems and contradictions of the modern world. The analysis of the history of Europe and a subsequent secularization of its cultural space justify the fact that just the elaboration of the strategy of the church and state interaction led to the situation that Christian cultural values, remaining in many respects a meaningful constant of the European culture, arrange their clerical nature and successfully integrate into the secular cultural landscape.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF CIVIL RELIGION FORMING CIVIL SOCIETY THROUGH PRACTICING RELIGIOUS COMMENT

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Agus Salim Nst
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Civil Religion ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Open Society ◽  
Pluralistic Society

Modern society requires the new symbol rituals development to create a solidarity in a pluralistic country such Indonesia. This is what sociologists called civil religion. Andrew Shauks stated that civil religion is not a true religion as existing religious practices; it did not compete with conventional traditions, but it is existing on it and break it bonds. The same idea also explained by Olaf Schuman that civil religion is not a religious source for someone where he gained his understanding of the identity and social obligations. It remains a resource is the existence of religion civil religion should not and could not be a substitute powerless religions. Civil religion is not like a religion and not a rival to the existing religions. Rather it part, it exist of religions and values and norms generated by them to ensure a life together that is sustainable and harmony in an pluralistic society situation to create society (civil society), an open society, egalitarian, and tolerant based on ethical values, moral transdental

Laicización y reforma en el Chile del siglo XIX: El asunto Taforó y las relaciones entre la Iglesia y el Estado, 1878-1886

2015 ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Cristobal García-Huidobro Becerra
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
Sociedad Civil ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Church

ResumenEste artículo aborda la evolución y desarrollo de las relaciones entre la Iglesia y el Estado en Chile, sirviendo como escenario histórico el conflicto por la provisión de la silla arzobispal de Santiago, suscitado luego de la muerte de Monseñor Rafael Valentín Valdivieso en 1878. Asimismo, metodológicamente, se propone en esta investigación el abandono del enfoque de estudio centrado en el binomio progreso-decadencia, que se ha utilizado en los últimos cien años para explicar el desarrollo de las relaciones Iglesia-Estado, abordando una nueva perspectiva basada en que las sociedades latinoamericanas, a lo largo del siglo diecinueve, pasaron por un proceso de transformación gradual en la esfera político-cultural, evolucionando desde una sociedad tradicional a una sociedad moderna. De esta forma, la secularización no implicó una desaparición de la Iglesia de la escena pública o su reclusión en el mero fuero interno, sino que implicó un cambio que requería una nueva concepción de lopúblico, esta vez identificado con una definición más amplia del concepto, más allá de la mera esfera estatal: la sociedad civil.Palabras clave: Laicismo, Reforma, Iglesia y Estado, Sociedad Civil. Laicism and Reform in Chile, s. XIX: The Taforó Case and the Church-State Relationship, 1878-1886AbstractThis article will seek to study the evolution and development of the relations between the Church and the State in Chile, serving as an historical scenario the dispute for the provision of the archiepiscopal See of Santiago, sparkedby the death of Archbishop Rafael Valentin Valdivieso in 1878. Also, methodologically speaking, this research proposes the abandonment of the study approach focused on the binomial-decay- progress, which has been used inthe past hundred years to explain the development of church-state relations.This proposal implies approaching a new perspective based on the idea that Latin American societies, throughout the nineteenth century, underwent aprocess of gradual transformation in the political and cultural sphere, evolving from a traditional society to a modern society. Thus, secularization did not imply the disappearance of the Church from the public scene, but involved a change that requires a new conception of public affairs this time identifiedwith a broader definition of the concept beyond the mere state sphere: the civil society.Key words: Secularization, Reform, Church and State, Civil Society.

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