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Describes religion in modern societies, which according to him will be rational and express the values ​​of society and its unity. Faith will be based on reason and justice will be one of its fundamental values. In religion man is the object of a new cult. Durkheim refers to this new religion as individualism or individualism as the cult or cult of the individual man or possibly as the personal cult of man (Pickering 1984: 485). Since the cult of the individual represents the highest moral ideal of society, the State should organize the cult and be its leader. The humanist religion is not fully united with the state, but also transcends the national state. It is also universal in a fundamental way, as it refers to humanity as a moral subject and