1 Imperial Ideology and Religious Pluralism in the Aśokan Inscriptional Corpus

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. List of Maps IX
5. Empires and Religions: An Introduction 1
6. 1 Imperial Ideology and Religious Pluralism in the Aśokan Inscriptional Corpus 25
7. 2 Secular Theocracy? State and Religion in Early China Revisited 45
8. 3 On Imperial Intermediaries: Elites and the Promotion of the Hellenistic Ruler Cult in Ptolemaic Phoenicia and Cyprus 77
9. 4 Religion in, for, and against the Roman Empire 101
10. 5 Envisioning Dualism and Emplacing the Eschaton: Apocalyptic Eschatology and Empire in Sasanian Iran 135
11. 6 A Christian Roman Empire? Byzantium between Imperial Monotheism and Religious Multiplicity, Fourth to Ninth Century CE (and Beyond) 175
12. 7 “Action Buddhism” in the Medieval Chinese Empire 207
13. 8 Religions in the Mongol Empire Revisited: Exchanges, Conversion, Consequences 231
14. 9 Religion and the Medieval Western Empire (CE 919–1519) 263
15. 10 A Populist Reformation: The Early Modern Transformation of Islam in the Ottoman Empire 295
16. 11 Religion and Politics in the Mughal Empire of India 321
17. List of Contributors 351
18. Index 355