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The question of whether the Left's rejection of religion in favor of art & philosophy is valid, or whether religion also provides a basis for human emancipation, is explored. Statements obtained from 21 Rs are presented: Russell A. Berman, Casey Blake, Laura Boella, Paul Breines, Halina Charwat, John A. Coleman, Harvey Cox, Charles Davis, David Gross, John Hellman, Joel Kovel, Jackson Lears, Patrick Murray, James A. Ogilvy, Robert A. Pois, Rudolf J. Siebert, Dorthee Soelle, Amedeo Vigorelli, Joel Whitebook, & Kurt H. Wolff. W. H. Stoddard.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. The Sacralization of Politics -- CHAPTER 1. A Never-Never Religion, A Substitute for Religion, or a New Religion? -- CHAPTER 2. Civil Religions and Political Religions: From Democratic Revolutions to Totalitarian States -- CHAPTER 3. The Leviathan as a Church: Totalitarianism and Political Religion -- CHAPTER 4. The Invasion of the Idols: Christians against Totalitarian Religions -- CHAPTER 5. Toward the Third Millennium: The Sacralization of Politics in States both New and Old -- CHAPTER 6. Religions of Politics: Definitions, Distinctions, and Qualifications -- Notes

Pierre Manent is viewed as a French thinker that develops in modern times the liberal tradition of political thinking. One of the most important issues of Manent's thinking that was not enough underlined it is the relationship between religion an politics and how this evolved from the beginning of Christianity until the main consequences of modernity. Manent view on religion and politics is the core of this paper analysis. The main contributions of Manent, such as Naissances de la politique moderne. Machiavel, Hobbes, Rousseau (1977), Histoire intellectuelle du lib.ralisme (1987) La cit. de l'homme (1994), Cours familier de philosophie politique (2001), La raison des nations. R.flections sur la d.mocratie en Europe (2006) are analyzed from this perspective. Our conclusion is that in the way Manent deals with the relationship between politics and religion there are some constants that may be found in all his work. These are: the relationship between the Church and the different forms of political organization in Europe (Civitas, Imperium, monarchy); the fact that Christianity is one of the few current relevant concepts for political, due to the failure of totalitarian ideologies; the idea that secularization in Europe is not irreversible; we live in "an age of separations", and Church-State is one of these separations; we witness the religion transformation process and the .tat la.que cannot survive to .tat-nation; the role of Islam in modern societies and his perpetual finding of a political form; the relationship between Judaism, state and nation; the issue of the Christian identity of Europe.