ISBN:
9781108477147
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1108477143
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9781108701952
,
1108701957
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 391 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Juergensmeyer, Mark, 1940 - [Rezension von: Strathern, Alan, 1975-, Unearthly powers : religious and political change in world history] 2020
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Stanley, Brian, 1953 - [Rezension von: Strathern, Alan, 1975-, Unearthly powers : religious and political change in world history] 2021
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Hsia, Ronnie Po-chia, 1955 - [Rezension von: Strathern, Alan, 1975-, Unearthly powers : religious and political change in world history] 2020
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Larner, Luke [Rezension von: Strathern, Alan, 1975-, Unearthly powers : religious and political change in world history] 2020
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Strathern, Alan, 1975 - Unearthly powers
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Strathern, Alan, 1975 - Unearthly powers
DDC:
201/.7209
Keywords:
Religion and politics History
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Religion History
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Religions
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Religion
;
Politischer Wandel
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
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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