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Aryan Civilization, Based On The Work La Cité Antique Of De Coulanges - Softcover

Thomas Childe Barker

 
9780371590591: Aryan Civilization, Based On The Work La Cité Antique Of De Coulanges

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Aryan Civilization, Based On The Work La Cite Antique Of De Coulanges by Thomas Childe Barker. This book presents Barker's edition and interpretation of De Coulanges' La Cité Antique, exploring how religion shaped ancient Aryan society from its fireside worship and cults of the dead to the formation of the family, gens, curia, tribe, and city. It lays out two primitive religious strands—the sacred fire and the veneration of ancestors—and demonstrates how these beliefs anchored social order, property, inheritance, marriage, adoption, and kinship. Barker shows how the institutions of early society evolved through successive revolutions—from priest-kingdoms to aristocracies to democracies—illustrating these processes with discussions of Greek and Roman law, the concept of agnatio, and the effects of conquest on municipal life. The Introduction situates religion as the core driver of civilization and tracks how later philosophical and Christian thought recast political authority away from sacred law toward universal ethical principles, culminating in the modern separation of church and state. The work offers a rigorous historical synthesis of how religious life produced social and political structures in ancient Aryan civilizations.

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