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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2020]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2020, Volume: 113, Issue: 2, Pages: 186-209 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bureaucracy
/ God
/ Scandinavia
/ History 900-1300
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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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