Abstract
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.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Educational Secularization within Europe and Beyond |
Subtitle of host publication | The Political Projects of Modernizing Religion through Education Reform |
Editors | Mette Buchardt |
Place of Publication | Berlin |
Publisher | de Gruyter Oldenbourg |
Pages | 59-83 |
Volume | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2025 |
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 503001 General education