“The Eyes of the Lord”
a rather specific social practice and its institutionalized modus operandi. Informers, accusers, internal spies, censors, secret agents and their like form. . . an effective and often unobtrusive web, that with constant vigilance and demonic effectiveness directs, controls and coerces the individual...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| In: | Essays in Memory of E. A. Speiser Year: 1968, Volume: 88-1, Pages: 173-180 |
| KeiBi Identifier: | 30:821 |
| Further subjects: | Konferenzschrift
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| Summary: | a rather specific social practice and its institutionalized modus operandi. Informers, accusers, internal spies, censors, secret agents and their like form. . . an effective and often unobtrusive web, that with constant vigilance and demonic effectiveness directs, controls and coerces the individual in his social setting. . . transferred to a supernatural level . . . they appear either as evil demons, as the swift messengers and servants or the “Eyes of the Lord”. |
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