[MGSA-L] Lecture, "Modern Ideology as Secular Religion", at the CMGS, April 19, 7:30 pm

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The Center for Modern Greek Studies, the Nikos Kazantzakis Chair, at San Francisco State University is pleased to present a lecture by

Professor Pantelis Lekkas, Department of Sociology, the University of Athens

"Modern Ideology as Secular Religion"

Thursday, April 19, in the Humanities building, room 587, 7:30 pm.

Abstract:

"This paper is an attempt at re-visiting the analogy between ‘modern ideology’ and ‘traditional religion’, and re-assessing its value for contemporary political analysis. A review of the relevant literature reveals two basic approaches to the problem: an historical one (in Weber's spirit) and a structural one (in Durkheim’s spirit). The paper pursues the second course but also tries to incorporate into it a third, more ‘formalist’, approach (in the spirit, say, of Simmel) that focuses on the formal similarities between Religion and Ideology as ‘universes of meaning’. It also tries to locate various points of osmosis between Religion and Ideology, and the ways in which an essentially ideological-cum-religious mode of thinking
continues to proliferate in contemporary phenomena like religious fundamentalism."


This lecture has been generously sponsored by the University Seminars Program of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, USA.

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