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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2019]
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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
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| IxTheo 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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| Summary: | 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 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Method & theory in the study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341467 |