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Solidarity
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[German Version]
I. Religious Studies The term
solidarity (from neo-Lat.
solidaritas, derived from
solidus, “solid, firm”; Fr.
solidarité) denotes the cohesiveness of a “group,” ultimately society, expressed in a generally ethical sense of cohesion. In the history of the term, originally borrowed from legal usage (Wildt, Baumgartner), É. Durkheim (1893) distinguishes the “organic solidarity” of a differentiated modern society from the “mechanical solidarity” of so-called primitive societies, in which the individ…
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Religion Past and Present