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Democracy and the thin veneer of civilisation.(Religion)
THE GROWING SUSPICION with which nineteenth-century thinkers came to regard religion led to it being treated as a form of ideology. But over the course of the twentieth century it became clear that sometimes it is more illuminating to treat ideology as a form of religion. The work of Leszek Kolakowski on Marxism, Ernest Gellner on nationalism, and Emilio Gentile on fascism (among others), has shown how these movements assumed many of the dimensions and functions of religion for their followers, despite often being expressly anti-religious, or at least anti-Christian, in their rhetoric.
This dynamic is most apparent in the great totalitarian ideologies of national ...
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...law-abidingness. Religion, properly used, would...than simply deploying religion in such a utilitarian...interest in promoting "political religion" with a distaste for the excesses to which religion, as much as democracy...place Lincoln believed religions should occupy on the...
Source: HighBeam Research, Democracy and the thin veneer of civilisation.(Religion)