Sacred Kingship in World History : : Between Immanence and Transcendence /

Sacred Kingship in World History : : Between Immanence and Transcendence / / ed. by A. Azfar Moin, Alan Strathern.

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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 perspectiv...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
MitwirkendeR:
Assmann, Jan,
Brisch, Nicole,
Devji, Faisal,
Gellner, David N.,
Gommans, Jos,
Gose, Peter,
Huseini, Said Reza,
Jerr, Nicole,
Mitchell, Lynette,
Moin, A. Azfar,
Puett, Michael,
Sahlins, Marshall,
Strathern, Alan,
Yelle, Robert A,
al-Azmeh, Aziz,
HerausgeberIn:
Moin, A. Azfar,
Strathern, Alan,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • 1. Sacred Kingship in World History: Between Immanence and Transcendence
  • 2. Kings Before Kingship: The Politics of the Enchanted Universe
  • 3. Immanence in the Andes (1000–1700 ce): Divine Kingship, Stranger-Kingship, and Diarchy
  • 4 Gods and Kings in Ancient Mesopotamia
  • 5 Pharaonic Kingship and Its Biblical Deconstruction
  • 6 King, Divinity, and Law in Ancient Greece
  • 7. Humanizing the Divine and Divinizing the Human in Early China: Comparative Reflections on Ritual, Sacrifice, and Sovereignty
  • 8 Caliphal Sovereignty or the Immanence of Transcendence
  • 9. Neoplatonic Kingship in the Islamic World: Akbar’s Millennial History
  • 10. Hobbes the Egyptian: The Return to Pharaoh, or the Ancient Roots of Secular Politics
  • 11. Ancient Apostasy, Modern Drama: Henrik Ibsen’s Emperor and Galilean
  • 12. The Last Hindu King: How Nepal Desanctified Its Monarchy
  • 13. A Caliphate Beyond Politics: The Sovereignty of ISIS
  • 14. Sacred Kingship: A Synthesis
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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