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Voting On or About God

In: Power and Responsibility

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  • Mario Ferrero

    (University of Eastern Piedmont)

Abstract

This study surveys a range of historical instances of collective decision-making about the choice of god(s) or the theological attributes of divinity. The instances include theological disputations summoned by the Khazar king and by the Mongol khan among representatives of different religions, councils held by several Germanic peoples over the question of conversion to Christianity, and a sequence of councils held by the early Christian church over the theology of Christ and the Trinity. Somewhat unexpectedly, the study finds that familiar concepts and models of voting and social choice can be readily pressed into service to interpret these events, from the Condorcet winner to the lack of it, or the Condorcet paradox, from the Borda count to Condorcet’s jury theorem.

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  • Mario Ferrero, 2023. "Voting On or About God," Springer Books, in: Martin A. Leroch & Florian Rupp (ed.), Power and Responsibility, pages 185-201, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-23015-8_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-23015-8_10
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