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Unearthly Powers
Alan Strathern
其他書名
Religious and Political Change in World History
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2019-03-21
主題
History / General
History / World
History / Social History
Religion / Comparative Religion
Religion / History
Religion / Religion, Politics & State
ISBN
1108477143
9781108477147
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hG2MDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.