Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. God, Satan, and Humankind: Liberation from and Dependency on Supernatural Forces
6. Freedom and Dependency in Ancient Israel and the Ancient Near East 11
7. The Semantics of Dependency in the Book of Isaiah and Beyond 27
8. ‘I Abjure Satan, his Pomp, and his Service’: Exchanging Religious Dependencies in the Early Church 45
9. Interactions between Religion and Politics
10. Can the Subaltern . . . Write? Rediscovering the “He”-tribe from Serabit el Khadim and the Invention of Alphabetic Writing 4000 years ago 67
11. Creating Dependency by Means of its Overcoming: A Case Study from the Rise of Tibetan Buddhism 89
12. ‘There is a Great Difference between Christianity and Religion at the South’: References to Religion in Harriet Jacobs’s Slave Narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) 109
13. Relics as Resource: Dependency from Holy Remains 127
14. Vīraśaiva and Jaina Rivalries in Medieval South India: Creating and Overcoming Structures of Dependency 155
15. Religion and Gender Dependency
16. Sisters and Equals? Slavery and Hierarchies in Early Monastic Communities for Women 181
17. Beyond Subordination versus Emancipation: Caribbean Godna (Tattoos) as Means of Recreating Social Relations and Affective Bonds 205
18. Religion and the Dialectic of Overcoming and Creating Dependency
19. Serving God: Structures of Dependency in the Ecclesiastical Realm 227
20. The Impact of Faith: Bartolomé de Las Casas’ Cultural Turn in his Interpretation of Aristotle as a Resource for Overcoming Slavery in the West Indies 249
21. Dominium in se ipsum in Antique and Medieval Discourses on Liberty 265
22. William Wilberforce and the Ambiguities of Christian Antislavery 297
23. Index of Names 321