Cultural Anthropology: What are the Religion and Political differences between Tribes and States?

Question

Please explain with details and if there is are any good sources to look at please let me know. Thank you very much :)

Answer 1

Tribes and States? Question doesn't make sense.

Answer 2

I don't at all understand your question.

A state is a political entity. Some have a predominent religion, others not.

A tribe is a cultural group, usually sharing one religion.

But without understanding at all what it is you want to know, it's impossible to help you.

Answer 3

A tribe often has many spiritual beings; when going to war, however, the dominant spirit represents the whole tribe and becomes an ethnonymic marker.

With the formation of a state comprised of many tribes, a competiton ensues as a result of which a hierarchy emeges; the dominant ethnomymic marker, s.a. Zeus for ancient Greece, becomes the supreme god-the-father (Deos-pitar > Jupiter), whereas the lesser gods becomes his spouse(s) godess-the-mother (Ge-matar > Demeter), children and other minor characters in the extended family of sprits and gods.

This polytheist kinship may or may not evlove into monotheist religion; in fact, the evlotution, in the case it does occure, could also be viewed more a regression than evolution, to the dominant tribal spirit only on a grander scale.