期刊名称:Política & Sociedade : Revista de Sociologia Política
印刷版ISSN:1677-4140
电子版ISSN:2175-7984
出版年度:2017
卷号:16
期号:36
页码:428-448
DOI:10.5007/2175-7984.2017v16n36p428
语种:Portuguese
出版社:Programa de Pós-graduação em Sociologia Política
摘要:This paper presents and articulates three points that, taken together, suggest a reinterpretations of Durkheim’s concept of religion, allowing us to take the arguments of his late writings as a key ground to postsecular theories. The first point inserts the author in his historical environments, highlighting his commitment to the principle of laicité, part of the moral ideals of the Third Republic. The second point builds a narrative where the idea religion and its relationship with morality undergoes a transformation along his career. The thesis is that in The Elemental Forms of Religious Life (DURKHEIM, 1912) he presents a concept of religion fully compatible with the idea of post-secularization both as a diagnostic of the present times and as a normative horizon for late modernity. In the third and last point I take a stand in defending the idea of postsecular as the best way to encourage religious and axiological pluralism.