| Project/Area Number |
17530115
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Politics
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| Research Institution | RIKKYO UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
YOSHIOKA Tomoya Rikkyo University, College of Law and Politics, Professor, 法学部, 教授 (90107491)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2006
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2006)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
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| Keywords | established Church / War of religion / social contract theory / civil religion / Christianity / nation state / sovereign state / Reformation / 主権政教分離 / ナショナリズム / ユートピア / スピノザ / ロック / ピエール・ベール / 百科全書 / 政教分離 |
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| Research Abstract |
This research focuses on the relationship of state and religion in the modern political thoughts, and aims to clarify the process of the legitimization of modern nation state as the secular creed which substitutes for the Christian belief.
1. War of religion and the rise of modern sovereign state: The Reformation and the War of religion caused radical division in the existing societies. Modern sovereign state was born overcoming the War of religion. Absolute monarch monopolizes the violence and attempts to authorize his sovereign power religiously with the established church system and the divine right theory. But Christianity could not offer unified value system for secular sovereign states. The compulsion of the creed under the absolute regime promoted all the more the growth of the idea of' freedom of conscience, and brought forth the relativization of Christianity itself.
2. Non-Christian religions in the utopian thoughts in the 17th and 18th centuries: Criticism of the established Christianity can be found in the utopian thoughts, which are not sufficiently studied. This research threw light on the politics and religion relation in some modern utopian thoughts.
3. Modern social contract theory and the nation state: To legitimize modern sovereign state, social contract theory was needed which fundamentally examines the human society and constructs theoretically the sovereign power. But as Rousseau's Civil Religion shows, if the constructional principle of the political society is logical and rational, some belief system is indispensable for actual political society. "Nation" as new political creed was substituted for the established church.
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