Empires and Gods: The Role of Religions in Imperial History
This volume focuses on the thorny relations between empires and religions. All empires employed religious semantics and religious rituals in their practice of rulership, and many invested substantial human and material resources in furthering specific religious ideas or personnel. Many were also cha...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Series/Journal: | Imperial Histories: Eurasian Empires Compared
Volume 1 |
| Further subjects: | B
Religion and state
History
B Colonialism and imperialism B Comparative Religion B Religion: general B Imperialism History B Religious life and practice |
| Online Access: |
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| Rights Information: | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 |
| Summary: | This volume focuses on the thorny relations between empires and religions. All empires employed religious semantics and religious rituals in their practice of rulership, and many invested substantial human and material resources in furthering specific religious ideas or personnel. Many were also challenged by the religious establishment. The contributions explore these dynamics in major Eurasian continental empires throughout history |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (368 p.) |
| ISBN: | 978-3-11-134200-9 978-3-11-134162-0 978-3-11-134202-3 |
| Access: | Open Access |
