Relaţia Stat-Religie în viziunea religiilor mediteraneene
State-Religion Relationship in Mediterranean religions vision

Summary/Abstract: A discussion of religion and politics in the Mediterranean space faces some obstacles: the geographical and cultural diversity of the traditions of each nation and the difficulty of defining the terms religion and politics. None of the societies possessed a word for religion in the modern sense of a system of faith and worship of a transcendent power. All of these societies feared the power of the gods. However religion provided a means of structuring chaos and making it intelligible by articulating a cosmic order that was guaranteed by a divine order, which then grounded human order. That order in turn was incarnated in a properly ordered state, a king who served as the institutional authority responsible for articulating a pantheon of divinities and a system of rituals and sanctuaries that would organize the universe and the divine world in a religious system. In this type of system, religion and the state were fundamentally connected. This article aims to present the relation between state and religion in the view of Mediterranean religions. Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Rome, they all presented powerful connections between cult and politics. As a conclusion this article will tend to describe how did Christianity position the two major poles of social life: faith and power.

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