Unearthly powers : religious and political change in world history / Alan Strathern. [electronic res...
Unearthly powers : religious and political change in world history / Alan Strathern. [electronic res...
Unearthly powers : religious and political change in world history / Alan Strathern. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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English
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1 online resource (xvi, 391 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
Introduction -- A Language of Religion -- An Overview of the Book -- Some matters of methodology -- The axial age -- The two forms of religion: being and nothingness -- The characteristics of immanentism -- The characteristics of transcendentalism -- An unstable synthesis -- Religion as the fabric o...
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Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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1st ed.
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England
Date Published
2019.
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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 se...
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Unearthly powers : religious and political change in world history / Alan Strathern. [electronic resource]
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BOOK
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74VKaz0z35ed
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaz0z35ed
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ISBN
1-108-75053-2
1-108-75490-2
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201/.7209
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991024402498002626
