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Sacred Kingship in World History
Between Immanence and Transcendence
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Edited by:
A. Azfar Moin
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English
Published/Copyright:
2022
About this book
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 perspective.
Author / Editor information
A. Azfar Moin is associate professor and chair of religious studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam (Columbia, 2012).
Alan Strathern is associate professor of history at the University of Oxford and tutor and fellow at Brasenose College. His books include Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History (2019).
Alan Strathern is associate professor of history at the University of Oxford and tutor and fellow at Brasenose College. His books include Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History (2019).
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Giancarlo Casale, author of The Ottoman Age of Exploration:
This broad-ranging and ambitious book is a model of theoretically informed, comparative world history. The individual case studies are impressively erudite, cover an astonishing geographical and chronological range, and are composed with an unusual level of collective rigor. Together, they demonstrate how the tension between immanent and transcendent kingship has shaped history in delicate and constantly evolving ways that continue to be profoundly felt in our world today.
This broad-ranging and ambitious book is a model of theoretically informed, comparative world history. The individual case studies are impressively erudite, cover an astonishing geographical and chronological range, and are composed with an unusual level of collective rigor. Together, they demonstrate how the tension between immanent and transcendent kingship has shaped history in delicate and constantly evolving ways that continue to be profoundly felt in our world today.
Philippe Buc, author of Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror: Christianity, Violence, and the West:
Mustering the typological distinction between immanentist and transcendentalist religions, Sacred Kingship in World History addresses forms of sacred rulership and sovereignty over a long swath of human prehistory and history, to the present. Well-framed by Moin and Strathern, this book will constitute an unavoidable point of reference for further discussion of conceptions and practices of sovereignty.
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eBook published on:
June 1, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9780231555401
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Professional and scholarly;
