Sacred kingship in world history: between immanence and transcendence
Sacred kingship has been the core political form, in small-scale societies and in vast empires, for much of world history. This collaborative and interdisciplinary book recasts the relationship between religion and politics by exploring this institution in long-term and global comparative perspectiv...
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| Format: | Edited Volume |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Columbia University Press
[2022]
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
| DOI: | 10.7312/moin20416 |
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| Online Access: | Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig: https://doi.org/10.7312/moin20416 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/isbn/9780231555401 Verlag, Cover: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231555401/original 
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| Author Notes: | edited by A. Azfar Moin and Alan Strathern |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1. Sacred Kingship in World History: Between Immanence and Transcendence
- 2. Kings Before Kingship: The Politics of the Enchanted Universe
- 3. Immanence in the Andes (1000–1700 ce): Divine Kingship, Stranger-Kingship, and Diarchy
- 4 Gods and Kings in Ancient Mesopotamia
- 5 Pharaonic Kingship and Its Biblical Deconstruction
- 6 King, Divinity, and Law in Ancient Greece
- 7. Humanizing the Divine and Divinizing the Human in Early China: Comparative Reflections on Ritual, Sacrifice, and Sovereignty
- 8 Caliphal Sovereignty or the Immanence of Transcendence
- 9. Neoplatonic Kingship in the Islamic World: Akbar’s Millennial History
- 10. Hobbes the Egyptian: The Return to Pharaoh, or the Ancient Roots of Secular Politics
- 11. Ancient Apostasy, Modern Drama: Henrik Ibsen’s Emperor and Galilean
- 12. The Last Hindu King: How Nepal Desanctified Its Monarchy
- 13. A Caliphate Beyond Politics: The Sovereignty of ISIS
- 14. Sacred Kingship: A Synthesis
- Bibliography
- Index