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Rev Synth. 2013;134(2):161-83. doi: 10.1007/s11873-013-0217-8.

[Civic religion, civil religion, secular religion. a historiographical investigation].

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[Article in French]
Patrick Boucheron

Affiliations

  1. Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 17, rue de la Sorbonne, F-75005, Paris, France, [email protected].

PMID: 23892649 DOI: 10.1007/s11873-013-0217-8

Abstract

Because of its conceptual plasiticity, the term civic religion is now widely used by historians, particularly historians of the Middle Ages. Yet, as this article suggests, historians would do well to interrogate the relationships (which can be hidden) that this term bears to similar concepts such as Greek Roman civic religion, Enlightenment civil religion or even the secular religion that emerged in the work of 20(th) century thinkers.

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