Religion and War from Antiquity to Early Modernity
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Religion and War from Antiquity to Early Modernity

  1. 512 pages
  2. English
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Religion and War from Antiquity to Early Modernity

About this book

Responding to the profound challenges of our times, this book provides a comparative and cross-cultural exploration of the role of religion in war in a long historical perspective, from the second millennium BCE, and even earlier, up to early modernity. Individual chapters focus on the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean basin, Europe and North Africa. Widely diverse case studies explore the historic link between the conduct of war and the growing complexity of human society conditioned by the ownership of ideological authority. The book explores how in most historical societies this authority was religious. Written by experts from different disciplinary perspectives, the volume challenges common assumptions about the historical relationship between religion and war and extends our understanding of the dangers and complexities of today's world.

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Yes, you can access Religion and War from Antiquity to Early Modernity by Irene Polinskaya,Alan James,Ioannis Papadogiannakis in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Ancient History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Contributors
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 1 Introduction: religion and war – a recurring historical nexus: Irene Polinskaya, Alan James and Ioannis Papadogiannakis
  8. Part One Near East, Egypt and The Hebrew Bible (3000–500 BCE)
  9. Part Two Classical and Late Antiquity (500 BCE–700 CE)
  10. Part Three Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (700–1650)
  11. Part Four A Longue DurÉe Perspective
  12. Index
  13. Imprint