Politics, religion and violence: the Maccabean Wars
The world is full of violence committed in the name of religion. Where does this violence come from? What has it to do with religion? This is the question to which this chapter is dedicated. The author examines this question from an Egyptologist’s or antiquarian’s point of view, exploring the earlie...
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| Format: | Chapter/Article |
| Language: | English |
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01 July 2017
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Politics, religion and political theology
Year: 2017, Pages: 151-164 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-94-024-1082-2_10 |
| Online Access: | Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1082-2_10
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| Author Notes: | Jan Assmann |
| Summary: | The world is full of violence committed in the name of religion. Where does this violence come from? What has it to do with religion? This is the question to which this chapter is dedicated. The author examines this question from an Egyptologist’s or antiquarian’s point of view, exploring the earliest occurrences of genuinely religious violence and their historical circumstances. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 10.10.2022 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9789402410822 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-94-024-1082-2_10 |