Unearthly powers: religious and political change in world history
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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Cambridge ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
| Beschreibung: | xvi, 391 Seiten Illustrationen |
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| adam_text | Contents List of Figures page ix Preface and Acknowledgements xi Introduction A Language of Religion An Overview of the Book Some Matters of Methodology The Axial Age 1 3 8 11 19 1 The Two Forms of Religion: Being and Nothingness The Characteristics of Immanentism The Characteristics of Transcendentalism An Unstable Synthesis 27 27 47 81 2 Religion as the Fabric of the State The Social Power of Religion Centralisation under the Conditions of Immanentism Centralisation under the Conditions of Transcendentalism The Instabilities of Transcendentalism 3 The Two Forms of Sacred Kingship: Divinisation and Righteousness Some Notes on How to Think About Sacred Kingship The Divinised King The Righteous King The Inevitable Synthesis 4 The Economy of Ritual Efficacy and the Empirical Reception of Christianity Some Reflections on the Function of Ritual Missionaries and the Impression of Ritual Superiority Prophetic, Millenarian, and Cargoist Responses to the Missionary Stimulus 107 109 117 131 141 155 156 164 195 204 219 219 229 248 vii
Contents viii 5 6 The Conversion of Kings under the Conditions of Immanentism: Constantine to Cakobau A Model of Ruler Conversion War and Healing as Turning Points Overcoming Resistance: Immanentism Recreated and Destroyed 255 256 260 280 Dreams of State: Conversion as the Making of Kings and Subjects The Consolidation of the Religious Field Loyalty, Governability, and Pacification Conversion and Dilemmas of Sacred Kingship 296 298 301 306 Conclusion 318 Glossary of Theoretical Terms 322 Bibliography 328 Index 380
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