Civil religion in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's national thoughtt
The article discusses the concept of «civil religion» proposed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's «Social contract» as a possible model of the state in which the religious choice of citizens is not a matter of the sovereign, and is a personal choice. The idea of «civil religion» Rousseau was picked up by the American sociologist Robert Bella, who in his «Civil Religion in America» has developed this idea and designated it as a working model is applicable not only to America, but other countries, including Russia.