Comte becomes the founder and the priest of the positivist universal religion, finding a companion and an inspirer in Clotilde de Vaux. Pierre Leroux makes Humanity the object of a universal worship, similarly to Auguste Comte, but in a different way. Claude-Henri de Saint-Simon founds his New Christianity (1825) on the joint work of scientists, industrialists and artists, and this concept will find many supporters and religiously exalted followers who will develop, among other things, a project of total reconstruction of Paris, containing a huge temple in the shape of a Woman. The text focuses on a number of representatives of utopian socialism, positivism and lay humanitarianism, paying particular attention to how religious reflection present in their works takes the form of a universal religion, and how philosophical assumptions and principles of social organization are reflected in sacred space (based on the theme of the temple). The article aims to deepen the understanding of the relationship between religion and utopian thought considering the example of nineteenth-century France.
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