DRUŠTVO, RAT I RELIGIJA
SOCIETY, WAR AND RELIGION

Summary/Abstract: Although war and religion represent some of the most common phenomena of mankind, we know little or almost nothing about their origins. However, sociological and ethnological schools took completely opposite stands towards these phenomena right from the beginning of their work. One of them claimed that in pre- -historic era, there had been an idyllic state without warfares, with a man of extraordinary goodness and faith in the monotheistic Highest Being, while the other one imagined that at the beginning of times there was a general warfare mess, human cruelty and cannibalistic agnosticism. Lately, there has been an appeasement of the ideological oppostitions, so the origin of war and religion is being discussed in a more moderate way and without exclusivisms. The roles of war and religion change with the distribution of work and state constitution. In the first period, war was conceived as a big religious ritual with all the belonging ceremonies. In the second period - the one of the state and distribution of work - religion serves the military vocations and enterprises arranging the initiation test of the future soldiers.

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