Pericles and the plague: civil religion, anomie, and injustice in Thucydides.

Sociology of Religion | December 22, 1996| | Copyright

The concepts of "civil religion" and "anomie" are closely associated with the work of Emile Durkheim, although both have been subsequently developed in new directions by a host of writers, including Merton, Warner, Bellah, and others. From a systematic standpoint, the two concepts have a symmetrical quality. While "civil religion" points to the highest level of religio-political ritual and symbolism unifying a people, "anomie" reveals the fragility of social integration and asks us to examine the sources and manifestations of social dislocation and the collapse of the moral ...

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