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Religion, Empire, and Torture: The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a PostScript on Abu Ghraib

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Religion, Empire, and Torture: The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a PostScript on Abu Ghraib - Lincoln, Bruce
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How does religion stimulate and feed imperial ambitions and violence? Recently this question has acquired new urgency, and in Religion, Empire, and Torture, Bruce Lincoln approaches the problem via a classic but little-studied case: Achaemenian Persia. Lincoln identifies three core components of an imperial theology that have transhistorical and contemporary relevance: dualistic ethics, a theory of divine election, and a sense of salvific mission. Beyond this, he asks, how did the Achaemenians understand their place in ...

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Religion, Empire, and Torture: The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a PostScript on Abu Ghraib 2014, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226251875

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Religion, Empire, and Torture: The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a PostScript on Abu Ghraib 2007, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226481968

Hardcover