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Power of the Priests

Political Use of Religious Knowledge
  • Edited by: Sabine Kubisch and Hilmar Klinkott
  • Funded by: ROOTS – Social, Environmental, and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies (EXC 2150)
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2024
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Religion plays a central role in nearly every aspect in people’s life of most pre-modern cultures. Especially the interconnection between religion and politics is a common fact but the details of this relation and interacting processes behind this are not substantially studied. Therefore, this volume does not aim to confirm the linkage of religion and politics in general but to investigate its functionalities in political processes. A focus is placed on the political role of religious personnel beyond their religious and cultic tasks and their influence in pre-modern societies from a cross-cultural perspective. Specialists from various disciplines present their research based on case studies. Thereby this interdisciplinary volume covers a wide geographical and chronological range from ancient Egypt in the Bronze Age until medieval England. These papers are organised according to core functions questioning the instrumentalisation of religious personnel.

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Sabine Kubisch; Hilmar Klinkott, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany.


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Hilmar Klinkott and Sabine Kubisch
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Shaping Policy: Case Study from Ancient Egypt

Efstathia Dionysopoulou
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Sabine Kubisch
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Experts for Teaching and Consulting

Maurits de Leeuw
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Harald Wiese
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Instrumentalizing the ‘Priests’

Veit Groß
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Etka Liebowitz
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Michel Summer
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Control of Knowledge: Documenting Priestly Power

Reuven Kiperwasser
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Katharina Knäpper
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Ahmed Mansour
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In the Field of Power: Priests and Legitimization

Mariano Barbato
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Eleni Krikona
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Nenad Marković
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Sabine Kubisch and Hilmar Klinkott
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eBook published on:
December 31, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9783110676327
Hardcover published on:
December 31, 2023
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110676211
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Front matter:
6
Main content:
321
Illustrations:
12
Coloured Illustrations:
8
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