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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