Global Civil Religion: A European Perspective
Global Civil Religion: A European Perspective
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全球公民宗教:欧洲视角
DOI:
10.2307/3712436
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发表时间:
2001
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
G. Davie
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作者:
G. Davie
This article responds to the notion of a global civil religion from a European perspective. In so doing, it makes use of three rather different starting points, which - broadly speaking - work outwards in terms of their geographical scope. The initial two are concerned with the European situation itself. The first looks at the concept of civil society (and by implication the role of religion within this) in a European context, scrutinizing (a) the different pressures of East and West Europe with respect to civil society (not least its relationship to the state) and (b) the significance of the churches in the evolving voluntary sector. The pivotal role of the territorial state is diminishing in both parts of Europe, but for very different reasons. The second section demonstrates both the capa- cities and the limitations of the major European religious traditions to operate on a European as opposed to national scale, bearing in mind that the tensions between European and global are just as real as those between European and national for at least some of these traditions - the Anglicans being an obvious example. Notwithstanding the Anglican case, this section will contain a signi- ficant amount of material on the role of Christian Democracy in the forming of both European identity and the European Union (in many respects the analysis mirrors Casanova's account of transnational Catholicism, but on a smaller