‘Founding Gods, Inventing Nations’ – The Role of the Culture Myth in Defining Social Legitimacy

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  January 11th at 12:01 AM  | 

WHAT ROLE DO culture myths – the stories civilizations tell about the beginning of law, medicine, arts and sciences, and civilization itself – have in defining a group’s legitimacy within society? In Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam, Will McCants, a Middle East expert at CNA’s Center for Strategic Students and adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins University, addresses this issue with | Read More »