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Enlightenment
About: Enlightenment is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 6845 publications have been published within this topic receiving 116832 citations.
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01 Jan 1983
TL;DR: A translation of Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem (1783) is presented in this paper as a powerful plea for the separation of church and state and also as the first attempt to present Judaism as a religion eminently compatible with the ideas of the Enlightenment.
Abstract: A classic text of enduring significance, Moses Mendelssohn s Jerusalem (1783) stands as a powerful plea for the separation of church and state and also as the first attempt to present Judaism as a religion eminently compatible with the ideas of the Enlightenment. Allan Arkush s new translation, drawing upon the great strides made by Mendelssohn research in recent decades, does full justice to contemporary insights into the subject while authentically reflecting a distinguished eighteenth-century text. Alexander Altmann s learned introduction opens up the complex structure and background of Mendelssohn s ideas. His detailed commentary, keyed to the text, provides references to literary sources and interpretations of the philosopher s intent."
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23 Aug 2001
TL;DR: Cristi as discussed by the authors provides a critique of the civil religion thesis and identifies the most basic deficiencies of literature on this topic, and demonstrates the need to rethink Bellah's thesis in the light of a reinterpretation of Rousseau's and Durkheim's classical approaches, and substantiates her critique with a brief comparative survey of state-directed civil religions, and with an informative case study of civil religion in Pinochet's Chile.
Abstract: Prompted by the shattering of the bonds between religion and the political order brought about by the Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques Rousseau devised a "new" religion (civil religion) to be used by the state as a way of enforcing civic unity. Emile Durkheim, by contrast, conceived civil religion to be a spontaneous phenomenon arising from society itself -- a non-coercive force expressing the self-identify or self-definition of a people. In 1967, the American sociologist Robert Bellah rediscovered the concept and applied it to American society in its Durkheimian form. Ever since Bellah's publication, most authors have sought to explain civil religion in terms of an alleged "spontaneous" integrative role for society. They have emphasized the religious and cultural dimension of the concept, but failed to give due consideration to its political-ideological foundations. Thus, the coercive potential of civil religion has received little attention or has been wrongly relegated to Third World countries. Cristi provides a critique of the civil religion thesis, and identifies the most basic deficiencies of literature on this topic. By contrasting Bellah's Durkheimian conception with Rousseau's original formulation, the author discloses the dubious conceptual and empirical basis of the former. She demonstrates the need to rethink Bellah's thesis in the light of a reinterpretation of Rousseau's and Durkheim's classical approaches, and substantiates her critique with a brief comparative survey of state-directed civil religions, and with an informative case study of civil religion in Pinochet's Chile.
65 citations
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01 Oct 1999
TL;DR: The authors explored the historical dimension of the original enlightenment doctrine in medieval Japanese elite culture, drawing on a wealth of medieval primary sources and modern Japanese scholarship, illuminating its importance to the maintenance of traditions of lineage and the secret transmission of knowledge.
Abstract: This study moves beyond the treatment of the original enlightenment doctrine as abstract philosophy to explore its historical dimension. Drawing on a wealth of medieval primary sources and modern Japanese scholarship, it places this discourse in its ritual, institutional and social contexts, illuminating its importance to the maintenance of traditions of lineage and the secret transmission of knowledge that characterized medieval Japanese elite culture.
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TL;DR: In the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries this discussion led to the emergence of regulations and arrangements which made religious pluralism possible in a small number of European states.
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14 May 2003
TL;DR: In this article, the origins of dark times are discussed, and a Seminar on the State is presented, along with a new objectivity index, called New Objectivity Index.
Abstract: Preface and Acknowledgments1. Beyond Common Measure2. The Origins of Dark Times3. A Seminar on the State4. A New ObjectivityIndex
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