An Institution and a Symbol in Political Theology

The paper is devoted to the historical and legal aspects of political theology: its civilizational path (in Modern and Contemporary Times), its impact on the legal understanding and implementation of ideas related to the concepts power, state, law. Political theology serves as the metaphysical foundation of political structures and institutions. The issues of political and religious areas, their mergers are investigated through the prism of dialectical development. Special attention is paid to the symbolic side of political theology. The category institutions is examined as a set of corporate, organic and instrumental entities that consolidate and fix the processes of legal genesis. The institution is associated with a number of political and legal conditions of a particular state and acquires its legal significance through the psychological accession of citizens by unanimous consent. The category symbol can be traced in the mythologized and religious perspective of power. The state power has always, since the most ancient times of the existence of mankind, required some kind of mysterious sacralization and worshiping. In general, the life of a social group organized and endowed with permanence, i.e. representing a stable institution, turns out to be included in the circle of symbolic procedures and rituals. Fundamental positions of Maurice Hauriou and Carl Schmitt had a great influence on the research. As for the views of outstanding jurists (set forth in the works “Fundamentals of Public Law” and “Political Theology”), it is important to emphasize their value for domestic science and practice. In the complex world realities of today, the theories that reveal the postulates of sociolaw and geolaw popular in Russia arouse unconditional interest among scholars and politicians.

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