Émile Durkheim: from secular ideologist to forerunner of postsecular theories
This paper presents and articulates three points that, taken together, suggest a reinterpretations of Durkheim’s concept of religion, allowing us to take the arguments of his late writings as a key ground to postsecular theories. The first point inserts the author in his historical environments, hig...
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| description | This paper presents and articulates three points that, taken together, suggest a reinterpretations of Durkheim’s concept of religion, allowing us to take the arguments of his late writings as a key ground to postsecular theories. The first point inserts the author in his historical environments, highlighting his commitment to the principle of laicité, part of the moral ideals of the Third Republic. The second point builds a narrative where the idea religion and its relationship with morality undergoes a transformation along his career. The thesis is that in The Elemental Forms of Religious Life (DURKHEIM, 1912) he presents a concept of religion fully compatible with the idea of post-secularization both as a diagnostic of the present times and as a normative horizon for late modernity. In the third and last point I take a stand in defending the idea of postsecular as the best way to encourage religious and axiological pluralism. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-202233211c07401a9527b4349f8261fc2022-12-22T03:01:53ZporUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaPolítica & Sociedade1677-41402175-79842017-10-01163642844810.5007/2175-7984.2017v16n36p42827827Émile Durkheim: from secular ideologist to forerunner of postsecular theoriesRaquel Weiss0Universidade de São Paulo (USP)This paper presents and articulates three points that, taken together, suggest a reinterpretations of Durkheim’s concept of religion, allowing us to take the arguments of his late writings as a key ground to postsecular theories. The first point inserts the author in his historical environments, highlighting his commitment to the principle of laicité, part of the moral ideals of the Third Republic. The second point builds a narrative where the idea religion and its relationship with morality undergoes a transformation along his career. The thesis is that in The Elemental Forms of Religious Life (DURKHEIM, 1912) he presents a concept of religion fully compatible with the idea of post-secularization both as a diagnostic of the present times and as a normative horizon for late modernity. In the third and last point I take a stand in defending the idea of postsecular as the best way to encourage religious and axiological pluralism.https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/politica/article/view/53270durkheimreligiãomorallaicidadepós-secularpluralismo |
| spellingShingle | Raquel Weiss Émile Durkheim: from secular ideologist to forerunner of postsecular theories Política & Sociedade durkheim religião moral laicidade pós-secular pluralismo |
| title | Émile Durkheim: from secular ideologist to forerunner of postsecular theories |
| title_full | Émile Durkheim: from secular ideologist to forerunner of postsecular theories |
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| title_short | Émile Durkheim: from secular ideologist to forerunner of postsecular theories |
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| topic | durkheim religião moral laicidade pós-secular pluralismo |
| url | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/politica/article/view/53270 |
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