Secularization, the Education of the Heart, and the Modern Nation-State: The Case of Swiss Reformed Protestantism and its European Resonance.

Using the example of the configuration and impact of the Swiss Refor-mation, especially in England, this chapter starts from the assumption that a dis-tinction must be made between formal-institutional and cultural secularization. Itdiscusses the thesis that it is hardly possible to speak of a significant disappear-ance of religiosity as a cultural attitude and uses the example of Rousseau in par-ticular to show how, in the eighteenth century, patriotism, which linked the heartas a central Christian category with the free city-state, became the basis of nation-alism. Nationalism, in turn, was combined with the constitutional state to formthe modern nation-state, which must constantly renew the national identity of itscitizens not least through education.