Love-hated Leaders: Revisiting Divine Kingship

Olof Ohlson ((This research is funded by grant No #2021/11138-0, of the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). The opinions, hypotheses and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of FAPESP.)) Our current political age comes with a peculiar emotional double bind: one group’s savior is the other group’s foe, again and again, across several nations simultaneously. Hatred and love for the same leader are seem...