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SOCIETY, WAR AND RELIGION
Jakov Jukić
; Split
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Although war and religion represent some of the most common
phenomena of mankind, we know little or almost nothing about
their origins. However, sociological and ethnological schools took
completely opposite stands towards these phenomena right from
the beginning of their work. One of them claimed that in pre-
-historic era, there had been an idyllic state without warfares, with
a man of extraordinary goodness and faith in the monotheistic
Highest Being, while the other one imagined that at the beginning
of times there was a general warfare mess, human cruelty and
cannibalistic agnosticism. Lately, there has been an appeasement
of the ideological oppostitions, so the origin of war and religion is
being discussed in a more moderate way and without exclusivisms.
The roles of war and religion change with the distribution
of work and state constitution. In the first period, war was
conceived as a big religious ritual with all the belonging ceremonies.
In the second period - the one of the state and distribution of
work - religion serves the military vocations and enterprises
arranging the initiation test of the future soldiers. The Central
European secret warfare societies with the wolf as their symbol,
play a big role in these rituals. Later, many Gods of war and war
civilizations are formed: the Mexican civilization, the Iranian
mitraism and the Japanese Zen-buddhism. Thanks to the researchers
of G. Dumisil, many parallel divinities of war and warfare
classes are discovered in the whole Indo-European historic area.
lt seems that the best interpretation of warfares and religions -
being a common formation - is given by the sociological functionalism
while for the second period the theories of legitimitation
and ideologization are the most appropriate ones. On this level it
is logical to ask the following question: Why are the big
monotheistic religions more easily connected with the act of
warfare than the older, polytheistic religions? The answer should
be looked for in the everywhere present theological elaboration of
the religious experience and in neglecting the same.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
33035
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Datum izdavanja:
1.3.1994.
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