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287 - Richard Rohlin - Universal History: The Symbolism Of Nationalism

The Symbolic World

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The Importance of Identity Conferring Stories

"I'm deeply uninterested in questions like authorship. It doesn't actually matter," he says. "Certain kinds of things have more authority when either we don't know who wrote them or made them, or when the person who wrote or made them is it has become a mythic person." The divine liturgy and the divine services in the Orthodox Church were not created by committee but passed down through history.

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