Unearthly powers : religious and political change in world history / Alan Strathern (University of Oxford)
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 regio...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, New York, NY, Port Melbourne, New Delhi, Singapore : Cambridge University Press, 2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
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Classification: | 15.06 - Politische Geschichte 11.01 - Systematische Religionswissenschaft: Allgemeines |
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