RELS 349 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Monism, Major Force, Emilio Gentile
14 Sep 2018
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Concept for understanding relation between civil and politics. Talked about civil religion in his book: the social contract or principles of political right (now part of the public domain, not under copy write) Said: in the ancient world, all states had a religion which were always identified with the state itself. Example: if you were egyptian, you worship the gods of egypt. The greeks had a group of gods who were greek gods. Gods lived at the top of mount olympus, this drew the greeks together, when the. Parisians tried to invade greek, the greek city states joined together to fight against the parisians to fight for their independence. Gods were identified with the ruler so that you had the rule of the pharaoh of egypt (god). This applied in ancient rome, caesar was the ruler of rome and was assassinated by former republicans.
