The free market in religion and the metaphysical invisible hand: Benjamin Constant and the construction of religion as private

被引：0

作者：

McCalla, Arthur ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Mt St Vincent Univ, Dept Religious Studies, Halifax, NS B3M 2J6, Canada

来源：

RELIGION | 2012年 / 42卷 / 01期

关键词：

current debates in religious studies; history of religious studies; Christianity; Europe;

D O I：

10.1080/0048721X.2011.640359

中图分类号：

B9 [宗教];

学科分类号：

010107 ;

摘要：

Benjamin Constant's (1767-1830) De la Religion, consideree dans sa source, ses formes et ses developpements (On Religion, Considered in its Origin, its Forms, and its Developments) (five volumes, 1824-31) is one site of the construction of the powerful modern idea of religion as private. This paper analyzes Constant's liberal and idealist conceptualization of religion, not as a program or method to be emulated today, but for the illuminating perspectives the epistemological and historical investigation of it can bring to the status of religion in liberal democratic societies today.

引用

页码：87 / 103

页数：17