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Apples and Oranges
Explorations In, On, and with Comparison
Häftad, 2018
454 kr
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Comparison is an indispensable intellectual operation that plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Yet comparison often leads us to forego attention to nuance, detail, and context, perhaps leaving us bereft of an ethical obligation to take things correspondingly as they are. Examining …
Holy Terrors, Second Edition
Thinking About Religion After September 11
Häftad, 2006
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227 kr
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It is tempting to regard the perpetrators of the September 11th terrorist attacks as evil incarnate. But their motives, as Bruce Lincoln's acclaimed "Holy Terrors" makes clear, were profoundly and intensely religious. Thus what we need after the events of 9/11, Lincoln argues, is greater clarity …
Authority
Construction and Corrosion
Häftad, 2019
263 kr
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What is authority? How is it constituted? How ought one understand the subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) relations between authority and coercion? Between authorized and subversive speech? In this fascinating and intricate analysis, Bruce Lincoln argues that authority is not an entity but an …
Secrets, Lies, and Consequences
A Great Scholar's Hidden Past and his Protégé's Unsolved Murder
Inbunden, 2024
351 kr
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The tale of a legendary scholar, an unsolved murder, and the mysterious documents that may connect themIn early 1991, Ioan Culianu was on the precipice of a brilliant academic career. Culianu had fled his native Romania and established himself as a widely admired scholar at just forty-one years of …
Secrets, Lies, and Consequences
A Great Scholar''s Hidden Past and his Prot?g?''s Unsolved Murder
E-bok, 2023
277 kr
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The tale of a legendary scholar, an unsolved murder, and the mysterious documents that may connect them In early 1991, Ioan Culianu was on the precipice of a brilliant academic career. Culianu had fled his native Romania and established himself as a widely admired scholar at just forty-one years of …
Secrets, Lies, and Consequences
A Great Scholar''s Hidden Past and his Prot?g?''s Unsolved Murder
E-bok, 2023
277 kr
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The tale of a legendary scholar, an unsolved murder, and the mysterious documents that may connect them In early 1991, Ioan Culianu was on the precipice of a brilliant academic career. Culianu had fled his native Romania and established himself as a widely admired scholar at just forty-one years of …
Discourse and the Construction of Society
Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification
Häftad, 2014
1005 kr
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Without overlooking the role of coercive force in the maintenance (or overthrow) of social structures, Lincoln argues his thesis with rich illustrations drawn from such diverse areas as Platonic philosophy, the Upanishads of India, ancient Celtic banquets, professional wrestling, and the Spanish …
Discourse and the Construction of Society
Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification
E-bok, 2014
697 kr
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Without overlooking the role of coercive force in the maintenance (or overthrow) of social structures, Lincoln argues his thesis with rich illustrations drawn from such diverse areas as Platonic philosophy, the Upanishads of India, ancient Celtic banquets, professional wrestling, and the Spanish …
Discourse and the Construction of Society
Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification
E-bok, 2014
697 kr
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Without overlooking the role of coercive force in the maintenance (or overthrow) of social structures, Lincoln argues his thesis with rich illustrations drawn from such diverse areas as Platonic philosophy, the Upanishads of India, ancient Celtic banquets, professional wrestling, and the Spanish …
Between History and Myth
Stories of Harald Fairhair and the Founding of the State
E-bok, 2014
1258 kr
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All groups tell stories about their beginnings. Such tales are oft-repeated, finely wrought, and usually much beloved. Among those institutions most in need of an impressive creation account is the state: it’s one of the primary ways states attempt to legitimate themselves. But such founding …
Religion, Empire, and Torture
The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib
Häftad, 2014
289 kr
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In Religion, Empire, and Torture, Bruce Lincoln identifies three core components of an imperial theology that have transhistorical and contemporary relevance: dualistic ethics, a theory of divine election, and a sense of salvific mission. He shows how these religious ideas shaped Achaemenian …
Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars
Critical Explorations in the History of Religions
Häftad, 2012
323 kr
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Bruce Lincoln is one of the most prominent advocates within religious studies for an uncompromisingly critical approach to the phenomenon of religion-historians of religions, he believes, should resist the preferred narratives and self-understanding of religions themselves, especially when their …
Religion, Empire, and Torture
The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib
E-bok, 2010
625 kr
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How does religion stimulate and feed imperial ambitions and violence? Recently this question has acquired new urgency, and in Religion, Empire, and Torture, Bruce Lincoln approaches the problem via a classic but little-studied case: Achaemenian Persia. Lincoln identifies three core components of an …
Religion, Empire, and Torture
The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib
Inbunden, 2007
852 kr
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How does religion stimulate and feed imperial ambitions and violence? Recently, this question has acquired new urgency, and in Religion, Empire, and Torture, Bruce Lincoln approaches the problem via a classic but little-studied case: Achaemenian Persia. Lincoln identifies three core components of …
Death, War, and Sacrifice
Studies in Ideology & Practice
Häftad, 1991
451 kr
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One of the world's leading specialists in Indo-European religion and society, Bruce Lincoln expresses in these essays his severe doubts about the existence of a much-hypothesized prototypical Indo-European religion. Written over fifteen years, the essays—six of them previously unpublished—fall into …
Theorizing Myth
Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship
Häftad, 2000
420 kr
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In "Theorizing Myth", Bruce Lincoln traces the way scholars and others have used the category of "myth" to fetishize or deride certain kinds of stories, usually those told by others. He begins by showing that "mythos" yielded to "logos" not as part of a (mythic) "Greek miracle", but as part of …
Apples and Oranges
Explorations In, On, and with Comparison
Inbunden, 2018
1074 kr
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Comparison is an indispensable intellectual operation that plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Yet comparison often leads us to forego attention to nuance, detail, and context, perhaps leaving us bereft of an ethical obligation to take things correspondingly as they are. Examining …
Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf
A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective
Av Carlo Ginzburg, Bruce Lincoln
Häftad, 2020
332 kr
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In 1691, a Livonian peasant known as Old Thiess boldly announced before a district court that he was a werewolf. Yet far from being a diabolical monster, he insisted, he was one of the “hounds of God,” fierce guardians who battled sorcerers, witches, and even Satan to protect the fields, flocks, …
Authority
Construction and Corrosion
E-bok, 2019
523 kr
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What is authority? How is it constituted? How ought one understand the subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) relations between authority and coercion? Between authorized and subversive speech? In this fascinating and intricate analysis, Bruce Lincoln argues that authority is not an entity but an …
Religion, Rebellion, Revolution
An Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Collection of Essays
Inbunden, 1985
1098 kr
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Papers from a symposium on "Religion and revolution," held at the University of Minnesota, 6-8 Nov. 1981.
Sunlight at Midnight
St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia
Häftad, 2002
321 kr
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For Russians, St.Petersburg has embodied power, heroism and fortitude. It has encompassed all the things that the Russians are and that they hope to become. Opulence and artistic brilliance blend with images of suffering on a monumental scale to make up the historic persona the late W. Bruce …
Religion, Rebellion, Revolution
An Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Collection of Essays
E-bok, 1985
1596 kr
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Papers from a symposium on "Religion and revolution," held at the University of Minnesota, 6-8 Nov. 1981.
Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran
Collected Essays
Inbunden, 2021
2492 kr
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In Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran, Bruce Lincoln offers a vast overview on different aspects of the Indo-Iranian, Zoroastrian and Pre-Islamic mythologies, religions and cultural issues. The book is organized in four sections according to the body of evidence they engage most …
On Ritual
A Microhistorical Approach
Inbunden, 2025
1799 kr
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Close, microhistorical examination of the way rituals are actually performed goes well beyond the standard, ideal description of such ceremonies to reveal participants who modify the proceedings in shrewd, subtle, strategic ways that advance their own interests, sometimes going so far as to …
On Ritual
A Microhistorical Approach
Häftad, 2025
830 kr
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Close, microhistorical examination of the way rituals are actually performed goes well beyond the standard, ideal description of such ceremonies to reveal participants who modify the proceedings in shrewd, subtle, strategic ways that advance their own interests, sometimes going so far as to …
Chips from a Midwestern Workshop (Vol I): Collected Essays, Volume I: 1975-2005
Inbunden, 2026
1581 kr
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Between History and Myth
Stories of Harald Fairhair and the Founding of the State
Inbunden, 2014
526 kr
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All groups tell stories about their beginnings. Such tales are oft-repeated, finely wrought, and usually much beloved. Among those institutions most in need of an impressive creation account is the state: it's one of the primary ways states attempt to legitimate themselves. But such founding …
Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars
Critical Explorations in the History of Religions
Inbunden, 2012
1031 kr
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Bruce Lincoln is one of the most prominent advocates within religious studies for an uncompromisingly critical approach to the phenomenon of religion-historians of religions, he believes, should resist the preferred narratives and self-understanding of religions themselves, especially when their …
