Follow Your Heart and Nothing Else: Thoughts on the Religious Anarcho-Primitivist Message of Lynyrd Skynyrd

Summary, in English

This article maintains that the well-known Souther Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd has a long-neglected religious anarcho- primitivist message in their lyrics. By neglecting the state, celebrating simple living, and advocating the individual conscience as the highest moral authority, the band's theological-political stance seems to approximate the anarcho-primitivst teachings of the Dao de Jing.

• Author: Anthony Fiscella
• Department/s: History of Religions and Religious Behavioural Science
• Publishing year: 2014
• Language: English
• Pages: 1-7
• Publication/Series: RIT: Religionsvetenskaplig Internettidskrift
• Issue: 16
• Links: http://www.teol.lu.se/fileadmin/user_upload/ctr/pdf/rit/16/88_-_Lynyrd_Skynyrd.pdf
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap, Lunds universitet
• Topic: History of Religions
• Keywords: Anarchism; Lynyrd Skynyrd; Primitivism; Southern Rock; Taoism; Daoism
• Status: Published