It's Not mana, It's High Gods!: Another Conceptual History or Another Explanation, but a Similar Problem

In this short review and debate article I use Nicolas Meylan's Mana: A History of a Western Category as a starting point for discussing the Swedish historian of religions Geo Widengren (1907-1996) and his theory of the so-called High God. Resembling mana, the High God theory is a second-order c...

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Main Author: Larsson, Göran 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 31, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 447-456
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Widengren, Geo 1907-1996 / Supreme Being / Conception
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
NBC Doctrine of God
Further subjects:B Nicolas Meylan
B Mana
B Geo Widengren
B High Gods
B history of religions
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