The Myth of the State
Editori
Biezais, Haralds
The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi
1972
Kuvaus
LAURI HONKO
The Problem of Defining Myth
BERNDT GUSTAFSSON
Durkheim on Power and Holiness
ALFRED HALDAR
Mesopotamia: Myth and Reality
BERTIL ALBREKTSON
Prophecy and Politics in the Old Testament
GÖSTA LINDESKOG
Der Staat im Neuen Testament
JAN BERGMAN
Zum "Mythus vom Staat" im Alten Ägypten
HELMER RINGGREN
On the Islamic Theory of the State
PATRICK BRUUN
Evocatio deorum. Some Notes on the Romanization of Etruria
JOHANNES, METROPOLITAN OF HELSINKI
The View of the Ecumenical Synods on the State
HARALD VON SICARD
Mythe und Staat in Bantu-Afrika
ÅKE V. STRÖM
Gottesstaat und Götterstaat unter den vorchristlichen Germanen
LENNART EJERFELDT
Myths of the State in the West European Middle Ages
CARL-MARTIN EDSMAN
The Myth of the State, or the State's Religious Legitimation
The Problem of Defining Myth
BERNDT GUSTAFSSON
Durkheim on Power and Holiness
ALFRED HALDAR
Mesopotamia: Myth and Reality
BERTIL ALBREKTSON
Prophecy and Politics in the Old Testament
GÖSTA LINDESKOG
Der Staat im Neuen Testament
JAN BERGMAN
Zum "Mythus vom Staat" im Alten Ägypten
HELMER RINGGREN
On the Islamic Theory of the State
PATRICK BRUUN
Evocatio deorum. Some Notes on the Romanization of Etruria
JOHANNES, METROPOLITAN OF HELSINKI
The View of the Ecumenical Synods on the State
HARALD VON SICARD
Mythe und Staat in Bantu-Afrika
ÅKE V. STRÖM
Gottesstaat und Götterstaat unter den vorchristlichen Germanen
LENNART EJERFELDT
Myths of the State in the West European Middle Ages
CARL-MARTIN EDSMAN
The Myth of the State, or the State's Religious Legitimation
Tiivistelmä
The current volume examines myths of the state from ancient to modern time and from various cultural and religious contexts. It opens with a theoretical attempt to define the concept of myth followed by an analysis of the Durkheimian position on the topic under study. Notions of the state, politics and prophecy in the Old and the New Testament are presented as well as several pre-historic myths of the state from e.g. ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire and the pre-Christian German tradition. Furthermore, Islamic as well as Orthodox Christian theories of the state are illuminated. As a conclusion, a comparison is made between different political systems from both East and West concerning the influence of myth and religion.
The volume is based on papers read at the Symposium on the Myth of the State held at Åbo on the 6th-8th September, 1971. Ed. by Haralds Biezais. Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell, 1972
The volume is based on papers read at the Symposium on the Myth of the State held at Åbo on the 6th-8th September, 1971. Ed. by Haralds Biezais. Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell, 1972