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单词 civil religion
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civil religion
civil religion n. a religion, or a secular tradition likened to a religion, which serves (officially or unofficially) as a basis for national identity and civic life.
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1713 R. Bentley Remarks Disc. Free-thinking II. xlv. 33 But as to the Civil Religion, Socrates never oppos'd it, but always countenanc'd it both by discourse and example. His precept to his Scholars about matters of Worship was to govern themselves..by the Custom of the Country.
1789 tr. J.-C. Laveaux Life Frederick II II. 541 You are the chief of the Civil religion of the country, which consists in honesty and all the moral virtues.
1871 Congregational Q. Oct. 568 [Rousseau] propounds the theory of a civil religion, but limits it to those general dogmas which are common to all states, and the foundations of all creeds.
1985 Times 19 Dec. 13/5 If the Church of England did not provide the civil religion for the nation and the State, it would be necessary to invent some other organisation to do so.
2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 17 May 49 (advt.) Some argue that a ‘Civil Religion’ is necessary to hold together our newly ‘religionless’ society.
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