RELIGIJA I POLITIKA NA ISTOM IZVORIŠTU; ARHETIPSKI DRŽAVNICI I PROPOVEDNICI STAROGA DOBA KAO SPOJ RELIGIJE I (POLITIČKE) VEŠTINE DRŽAVNIŠTVA
Religion and politics at the same source; old-time archetypal statesmen and preachers as a combination of religion and (political) statesmanship

Author(s): Neven V. Cvetićanin
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Politics and religion
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: the religion; the politics; the habitat; archetypal statesmen; Moses; Muhammad; Aurelius Augustine
Summary/Abstract: The paper puts forward the thesis that the first "habitat" of politics is actually religion, i.e. the thesis that religion and politics have the same source because they respond to similar issues of human existence. Politics will be "emancipated" from the religion later in the European Modern, while in the pre-modern times it had its first habitat in it. In order to prove previous thesis, the paper examines work of (archetypal) statesmen and oldtime preachers such as Moses, Muhammad and Aurelius Augustine, finding that their work does not belong only to the realm of religion, but also to the fields of politics, history and law. This relates especially to the work of Moses and Muhammad in which interweave religion, politics, positive law and other various fields of human activity. Therefore, the paper concludes that the work of archetypal statesmen such as Moses and Muhammad shows and proves the thesis that the first habitat of politics is actually religion.

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