Dialectics of ideology and war in the era of the emergence and establishment of world religions

• Main Author: A. V. Lubinec
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Ukrainian Association of Researchers of Religion (UARR) 1998-02-01
• Series: Українське Pелігієзнавство
• Online Access: https://uars.info/index.php/uars/article/view/151

Already at the early stages of the development of human civilization, a set of various ideas emerged and developed, representing the most important elements of the identified military-political versions of ideology as one of the theoretical forms of social consciousness. Qualitatively a new stage in the development of ideology and its interrelations with various wars should be considered the era of the emergence and establishment of world religions. Although each of them did not carry in itself any militant principles, but, on the contrary, in every possible way emphasized its peace, the history of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism is associated with military violence. First, the religions themselves were the object of severe persecution and persecution by the pagan majority and the authorities. For Christians, their symbol was the burning of Rome in 64, after which the emperor Nero massacred and executed the followers of the new faith.