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Unearthly Powers
- Religious and Political Change in World History
Engelsk Hardback
Unearthly Powers
- Religious and Political Change in World History
Engelsk Hardback

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Why was religion so important for rulers in the pre-modern world? And how did the world come to be dominated by just a handful of religious traditions, especially Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism? Drawing on sociology and anthropology, as well as a huge range of historical literature from all regions and periods of world history, Alan Strathern sets out a new way of thinking about transformations in the fundamental nature of religion and its interaction with political authority. His analysis distinguishes between two quite different forms of religiosity - immanentism, which focused on worldly assistance, and transcendentalism, which centred on salvation from the human condition - and shows how their interaction shaped the course of history. Taking examples drawn from Ancient Rome to the Incas or nineteenth-century Tahiti, a host of phenomena, including sacred kingship, millenarianism, state-church struggles, reformations, iconoclasm, and, above all, conversion are revealed in a new light.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
404
ISBN-13:
9781108477147
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1108477143
Udg. Dato:
21 mar 2019
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
156mm
Højde:
235mm
Forlag:
Cambridge University Press
Oplagsdato:
21 mar 2019
Forfatter(e):
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