The Warrior and His Gods
In “The Stakes of the Warrior” Georges Dumézil uses his theory of the tri-functional structure of Indo-European society as a framework for the analyses of stories belonging to three different…
Tracing mythological meanings of events and ideologies in the United States and the World
American Civil Religion and the Enlightenment
In his theory of American Civil Religion, Robert Bellah attempted to attribute America's sense of community to a common religious factor independent of the church. He said that a specifically American ideology has worked to form a homogenous and unified culture from unrelated immigrants.