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social science subjects > sociology > social theory > French social theory > religion in french social theory

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religion in french social theory  

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  • The problem of religion and society has been central to French social thought from the time of the seventeenth-century religious philosopher Blaise Pascal. It becomes particularly prominent during the period after the French Revolution in the work of figures such as Auguste Comte and Joseph de Maistre. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Theory; Religion in French Social Theory]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-JL9HR308-6

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