Sovereignty as a Religious Concept

The Monist Vol. 90, No. 1, pp. 126-142, January 2007

14 Pages Posted: 13 May 2008

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Siegfried Van Duffel

National University of Singapore (NUS)

Abstract

An analysis of the concept of sovereignty. I argue that we have only one possible example of a sovereign, namely the god of the semitic religions.

Keywords: Sovereignty, Religion, Christianity, Semitic religions, agency, libertarianism, social contract theory, Hohfeld

Suggested Citation

Van Duffel, Siegfried, Sovereignty as a Religious Concept. The Monist Vol. 90, No. 1, pp. 126-142, January 2007, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1132263

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