Word: kingships
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...There Are. The idea that religion and government are different-let alone separate-is a relatively new one. Either the ancient kings were sacred, if not actually gods, or the high priests exercised kingship, as in Israel. Separation began with the concept of an official religion (Plato recommended in his Laws that all citizens who refused to accept the state religion should be imprisoned for five years, each day of which they should listen to a sermon). Christianity became a state religion 347 years after
Died. Sir Hisamuddin Alam Shah, 62, Paramount Ruler of Malaya since his election to a five-year term last April under the Federation's unusual rotating kingship system, a onetime farmer, who became Sultan of the state of Selangor in 1938; following hospitalization for a viral infection; in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya...
...ornate palace overlooking surprisingly modern Kuala Lumpur, the nine hereditary sultans of the federated Malayan states met fortnight ago to hold a thoroughly modern election. By secret vote of his peers, Sir Hisamuddin Alam Shah, 61, Sultan of Selangor, was elected to the five-year rotating kingship of independent Malaya, succeeding the late Tuan-ku Abdul Rahman. Gravely, the new king, who once operated a sporting-goods store and now raises rare orchids in his palace gardens, inscribed his name in a silver-bound book. Last week he went before Malaya's democratically elected Parliament to announce some good...