Mengakar Kembali Perdebatan Konsep Civil Religion Robert N. Bellah Dan Jean Jacques Rousseau

ARISTO ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Robby Darwis Nasution
Keyword(s):  
Civil Religion

 Kesimpulan yang diambil oleh Geovanie ini sangat tidak tepat jika dilihat dari beberapa tokoh civil religion seperti contoh Bellah yang menyatakan bahwa civil religion di Amerika lebih condong kepada kepatuhan masyarakat atau rakyat terhadap pemerintah dan hukum yang berlaku. Kepatuhan ini seolah-oleh telah men-Tuhankan pemerintah tetapi Rousseau memiliki pendapat lain dimana menurut Rousseau, agama sipil lebih kepada agama yang berkembang dimasyarakat meskipun hanya seperti pemujaan terhadap berhala. Melihat dari keseluruhan isi dari buku yang ditulis oleh Geovanie ini maka menarik sekali untuk menyusun resensi dari buku ini. Tujuan lainnya adalah meluruskan kembali konsep dasar dari civil religion menurut pendapat para ahli sehingga para pembaca menjadi runtut dalam memahami konsep ini.

Refusal to Mourn

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Runions
Keyword(s):  
American Politics ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Civil Religion ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
American People ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Civil Religion ◽  
The Us ◽  
Robert Bellah

In her recent book Precarious Life, Judith Butler points out that not more than ten days after 9/11, on 20 September 2001, George W. Bush urged the American people to put aside their grief; she suggests that such a refusal to mourn leads to a kind of national melancholia. Using psychoanalytic theory on melancholia, this article diagnoses causes and effects of such national melancholia. Further, it considers how a refusal to mourn in prophetic and apocalyptic texts and their interpretations operates within mainstream US American politics like the encrypted loss of the melancholic, thus creating the narcissism, guilt, and aggression that sustain the pervasive disavowal of loss in the contemporary moment. This article explore the ways in which the texts of Ezekiel, Micah, Revelation, and their interpreters exhibit the guilt and aggression of melancholia, in describing Israel as an unfaithful and wicked woman whose pain should not be mourned. These melancholic patterns are inherited by both by contemporary apocalyptic discourses and by the discourse of what Robert Bellah calls ‘American civil religion’, in which the US is the new Christian Israel; thus they help to position the public to accept and perpetuate the violence of war, and not to mourn it.

scholarly journals Civil Religion or Nationalism? The National Day Celebrations in Norway

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 206
Author(s):  
Pål Ketil Botvar
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
General Population ◽  
Civil Religion ◽  
Religious Nationalism ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Better Than ◽  
The Way

The Norwegian National Day (17 May, also referred to as Constitution Day) stands out as one of the most popular National Day celebrations in Europe. According to surveys, around seven out of every 10 Norwegians take part in a public celebration during this day. This means that the National Day potentially has an impact on the way people reflect upon national identity and its relationship to the Lutheran heritage. In this paper, I will focus on the role religion plays in the Norwegian National Day rituals. Researchers have described these rituals as both containing a significant religious element and being rather secularized. In this article, I discuss the extent to which the theoretical concepts civil religion and religious nationalism can help us understand the role of religion, or the absence of religion, in these rituals. Based on surveys of the general population, I analyze both indicators of civil religion and religious nationalism. The two phenomena are compared by looking at their relation to such items as patriotism, chauvinism, and xenophobia. The results show that civil religion explains participation in the National Day rituals better than religious nationalism.

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