Violence in Antiquity / Gewalt in der Antike

Religious Approaches to its Legitimation and Delegitimation / Religiöse Ansätze zu ihrer Legitimierung und Delegitimierung /

Johannes Breuer, Jochen Walter

• Verlag: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH
• Jahr: 2023
• Auflage: 1
• eBook-ISBN:
  9783515134545
• Thema: Geschichte
• Thema: Altertum

What is the role of religious aspects in legitimizing or delegitimizing violence? The articles of this volume provide an important contribution to this crucial social and scholarly debate. Analysing a broad spectrum of case studies from antiquity, they focus on religious justifications or evaluations of recommended, performed, or forbidden acts of violence – regardless of the question of their historicity. Not only late antiquity and Christianity are considered, but also pre-Christian Greek and Roman civilizations, Judaism, literary myth, and atheism. The case studies cover the period from the fifth century BCE to the fifth century CE and a broad geographical scope extending from Gaul to Israel and Egypt. This volume offers new insights into a highly topical issue.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Editorial
• Inhaltsverzeichnis
• Johannes Breuer / Jochen Walter: Einleitung
• Johannes Breuer / Jochen Walter: Introduction
• Alexandra Eppinger: “Godless!”
• Iris Sulimani: Religious Legitimization of Violence in Diodorus’ Mythography
• Arnold Bärtschi: ‘For the Greater Good’
• Kimberly B. Stratton: Religious Legitimation of Violence and the Restoration of Social Coherence
• Marcela Caressa: The Myth of Canopus
• Maijastina Kahlos: Swords or Cudgels?
• Liliane Marti: „Zwinge sie einzutreten!“
• Kathleen M. Kirsch: Imagining Holiness