Rousseau's civil religion rejects a Christian republic, separates church and state, and helps create the basis for the French nation-state.
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Secular State
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"...to be christians and the revolutionaries who want to establish a secular state the dogmas of civil religion ought to be few simple and..."
"the cult we have rejected okay so what we're saying here is that the new society should now have a new religion a state..."
"...who are well -educated and want to see Iran as a secular state that promotes democracy, and progress, and science, versus these religious individuals,..."
"...to me. It seems like it's just the perpetual sort of secular state. It doesn't really project. It's not like it's got this highly..."
"...the French Revolution. Why? Because French Revolution is calling for a secular state. It's calling for negation of religion. And um the thing about..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
The lecture names the law of proximity: people and nations play many games at once, but the nearest game is the one that governs action.
Uberboyo pushes Jiang from geopolitics into demography, soft power, religion, bureaucracy, and aging.
Robespierre is not read as a dictator who simply loses control.
The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
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