Unearthly powers : religious and political change in world history / Alan Strathern (University of Oxford)

• VerfasserIn: Strathern, Alan 1975-
• Ort / Verlag: Cambridge, New York, NY, Port Melbourne, New Delhi, Singapore : Cambridge University Press, 2019
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• Klassifikation: 15.06 - Politische Geschichte; 11.01 - Systematische Religionswissenschaft: Allgemeines
• Beschreibung: Online-Resource

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...