Az integráció politikai liturgiái : szimbolikus politika és hazafiasság Löw Immánuel beszédeiben

Political liturgies of integration: Civil Religion and Patriotism in Homiletics of Immanuel Löw Modernity and enlightenment fundamentally changed the relationship between religion, community, individual and the State. Haskalah, the Jewish enlighten-ment that appeared at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries brought the adoption of the enlightened values of western society. The enlightened absolutist rulers also thought of the Jews as subjects who could be changed and made useful. Differentiation of the Jewish institutional system, the decline of religious authority, the questioning of institutional legitimacy, the rationalisation of religious tradition, the pluralisation and individualisation of faith appeared in the Jewish communi-ties as a modern phenomenon. The State bound subjects to itself as individuals, lifting them out of the different bodies. Hungarian Neology, consciously mod-ernising and supported by the authorities and political elite, joined in the general discourses of Jewish enlightenment.Neology, in the spirit of the rationalism of the Enlightenment, its empirical demand and historical attitude, often rationalised religious traditions, and used the narratives of Hungarian civil religion