When Gods Become Bureaucrats

Even gods are not always above bureaucracy. Societies very different from each other have entertained the idea that the heavens might be arranged much like an earthly bureaucracy, or that mythological beings might exercise their power in a way that makes them resembles bureaucrats. The best-known ca...

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Main Author: Cole, Richard (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2020]
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 2020, Volume: 113, Issue: 2, Pages: 186-209
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Bureaucracy / God / Scandinavia / History 900-1300
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BD Ancient European religions
KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia
NBC Doctrine of God
Further subjects:B Glavendrup stone
B Runes
B Adam of Bremen
B Bureaucracy
B Scandinavia
B Lokasenna
B Gothic Bible
B Snorri Sturluson
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