| title: | The relations between religion and the state in early totalitarian society |
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| reg no: | ETF6626 |
| project type: | Estonian Science Foundation research grant |
| subject: |
6.6. Theology |
| status: | accepted |
| institution: | TU Faculty of Theology |
| head of project: | Tarmo Kulmar |
| duration: | 01.01.2006 - 31.12.2009 |
| description: | This grant project is a continuation of ESF Grants No. 4893 and No. 5374. The studies performed so far have led to the hypothesis of early totalitarian society. Finding proof of that is the most important task of this project. The project has two objectives: a) to deepen the field of research (to investigate the importance and meaning of religion in the different domains of the state machinery and the social life of the Incas), b) to widen the field of research (to search for potential further precedents of early totalitarian states and to compare the data obtained with those of the Inca state in particular). The working hypotheses are as follows: 1. Unlike the sun worship and the closely related Emperor cult, most of the cults in the Inca religion did not stand in the service of the state power and did not serve the ideological interests of the state. 2. It is highly probable that the state of the Peruvian Incas was the only early totalitarian state of pre-Columbian America. 3. In the older history of China early totalitarian features may be found, apart from the Qin Empire, in the reign of the Sui Dynasty (581-618 AD). 4. In the Near East, some characteristics of early totalitarian state may, with certain qualifications, be observed in the reign of the reformist pharaoh Amenhotep IV (Ikhnaton) (1379-1362 BC) of the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt. The project shall result in 8 scientific articles. |
| project group | ||||
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| no | name | institution | position | |
| 1. | Tarmo Kulmar | Tartu Ülikool | ||