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Social christianity and the constitution of a new political subject
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Abstract The issue of "the political subject" analyzed among others by Michel Foucault and William Connolly is offering to the political scientists a very important tool for their research. In this paper we have tried to find out if the social and political movement called "Social Christianity" from the late... view more
The issue of "the political subject" analyzed among others by Michel Foucault and William Connolly is offering to the political scientists a very important tool for their research. In this paper we have tried to find out if the social and political movement called "Social Christianity" from the late nineteenth century had proposed a new political subject for the modernity dominated by the liberalism and socialism. Thus, Social Christianity was not just a middle way between liberalism and socialism but also along with the emergence of durkheimian sociology as a "new social theology" it represented a daring attempt to overcome the limits of political modernity and thereby has invented a new political subject under the form of modernized Christian guilds.... view less
Keywords
political power; Christianity; corporatism; guild; historical development; political movement; theology; subject; politics
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Document language
English
Publication Year
2012
Page/Pages
p. 259-273
Journal
Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review, 12 (2012) 2
ISSN
1582-4551
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works