Category: Political Religion

• The League of Nations as One World Religion

  The League of Nations as One World Religion theory held that the Geneva-based international order created after World War I was not merely a diplomatic mechanism but the beginning of a secular church for humanity. In this theory, the Covenant of the League functioned as a kind of substitute scripture, Geneva became a quasi-sacred center, and the Council embodied a new moral authority intended to supersede national confessions, traditional churches, and inherited sovereignties. The theory drew power from the League’s unusual status as both legal framework and moral aspiration, as well as from contemporary language that sometimes invested internationalism with quasi-religious expectation. Opponents transformed that moral vocabulary into a warning that the League was building a secular Bible and a world creed.