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Unearthly Powers - Religious and Political Change in World History (Paperback)
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Unearthly Powers - Religious and Political Change in World History (Paperback)
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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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