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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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
[2019]
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Method & theory in the study of religion
Jahr: 2019, Band: 31, Heft: 4/5, Seiten: 447-456 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Widengren, Geo 1907-1996
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Religionswissenschaft AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik NBC Gotteslehre |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Nicolas Meylan
B Mana B Geo Widengren B High Gods B history of religions |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 concept that is used to explain the origin of religion in the history of humankind. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0682 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Method & theory in the study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341467 |