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                                          10. října 2022


                                         prof. Jon Stewart

                                    Slovak Academy of Sciences


                             An Analysis of the Religion of the Maya:

                                        A Hegelian Approach









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Abstract

Critics have argued that the development of the world religions that Hegel sketches in the Lectures
on the Philosophy of Religion is a crass expression of 19th-century Eurocentrism. This criticism
aims to undermine Hegel’s claim about the necessity of this development. If one wanted to defend
Hegel against this charge, it would be necessary to explore other religions that he failed to treat
and to see to what extent, if at all, they can be said to fit into his scheme of the development of
world religions. If his theory is really universal as he claims, then we would expect to find this
same kind of development in other religions, besides the ones that Hegel himself was familiar with.
In this paper I wish to do this by means of an exploration of the religion of the Maya in
pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. My thesis is that the polytheism of the Maya, in fact, fits very well
into Hegel’s scheme. I argue specifically that it corresponds generally to the stage occupied by
the Egyptian religion on Hegel’s account.


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