A cohesive worldview fused with matching conduct functions as secular religion or ideology

Evidence

Note the problem of religion taken not in the confessional sense but in the secular sense of a unity of faith between a conception of the world and a corresponding norm of conduct. But why call this unity of faith “religion” and not “ideology”, or even frankly “politics”? — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1179

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes Gramsci’s secular redefinition of ‘religion’ as unity of worldview and conduct — a definition carrying forward into hegemony theory.
• XREF: This secular-religion concept is a building block for later Islamophobia readings on how a ‘civilizational’ worldview pairs with conduct norms.
• QUESTION: Gramsci leaves open whether ‘ideology’ or ‘politics’ would serve equally — worth chasing how his choice of ‘religion’ frames the later argument.