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Sacred Kingship in World History
Between Immanence and Transcendence
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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.
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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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Contents
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Preface and Acknowledgments
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1. Sacred Kingship in World History: Between Immanence and Transcendence
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2. Kings Before Kingship: The Politics of the Enchanted Universe
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3. Immanence in the Andes (1000–1700 ce): Divine Kingship, Stranger-Kingship, and Diarchy
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4 Gods and Kings in Ancient Mesopotamia
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5 Pharaonic Kingship and Its Biblical Deconstruction
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6 King, Divinity, and Law in Ancient Greece
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7. Humanizing the Divine and Divinizing the Human in Early China: Comparative Reflections on Ritual, Sacrifice, and Sovereignty
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8 Caliphal Sovereignty or the Immanence of Transcendence
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9. Neoplatonic Kingship in the Islamic World: Akbar’s Millennial History
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10. Hobbes the Egyptian: The Return to Pharaoh, or the Ancient Roots of Secular Politics
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11. Ancient Apostasy, Modern Drama: Henrik Ibsen’s Emperor and Galilean
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12. The Last Hindu King: How Nepal Desanctified Its Monarchy
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13. A Caliphate Beyond Politics: The Sovereignty of ISIS
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14. Sacred Kingship: A Synthesis
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Bibliography
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Index
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