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13 produkter
Sacred Kingship in World History
Between Immanence and Transcendence
Av A. Azfar Moin, Alan Strathern
Häftad, 2022
360 kr
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Sacred kingship has been the core political form, in small-scale societies and in vast empires, for much of world history. This collaborative and interdisciplinary book recasts the relationship between religion and politics by exploring this institution in long-term and global comparative …
Unearthly Powers
Religious and Political Change in World History
Häftad, 2019
502 kr
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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 …
Converting Rulers
Global Patterns, 1450–1850
Häftad, 2024
621 kr
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Why did so many rulers throughout history risk converting to a new religion brought by outsiders? In his award-winning Unearthly Powers (2019), Alan Strathern set out a theoretical framework for understanding the relation between religion and political authority based on a distinction between two …
Sacred Kingship in World History
Between Immanence and Transcendence
Av A. Azfar Moin, Alan Strathern
Inbunden, 2022
1416 kr
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Sacred kingship has been the core political form, in small-scale societies and in vast empires, for much of world history. This collaborative and interdisciplinary book recasts the relationship between religion and politics by exploring this institution in long-term and global comparative …
Kingship and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Sri Lanka
Portuguese Imperialism in a Buddhist Land
Inbunden, 2007
1677 kr
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When the Portuguese arrived on the shores of Sri Lanka in 1506, they opened an era in which religious identity became central to struggles for power on the island. During the reign of King Bhuvanekabahu VII (1521-51), they became the first European empire to dominate Lankan politics. This book sets …
Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History
Av Alan Strathern, Zoltan Biedermann
Häftad, 2020
558 kr
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Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History
Av Alan Strathern, Zoltan Biedermann
Inbunden, 2020
631 kr
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Unearthly Powers
Religious and Political Change in World History
Inbunden, 2019
1347 kr
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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 …
Converting Rulers
Global Patterns, 1450–1850
Inbunden, 2024
2296 kr
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Why did so many rulers throughout history risk converting to a new religion brought by outsiders? In his award-winning Unearthly Powers (2019), Alan Strathern set out a theoretical framework for understanding the relation between religion and political authority based on a distinction between two …
Unearthly Powers
Religious and Political Change in World History
E-bok, 2019
487 kr
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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 …
Unearthly Powers
Religious and Political Change in World History
E-bok, 2019
487 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
