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Religion, Empire, and Torture

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Religion, Empire, and Torture

By Bruce Lincoln

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Identifying the three core components of an imperial theology that have transhistorical and contemporary relevance: dualistic ethics, a theory of divine election, and a sense of salvific mission, the author shows how these religious ideas shaped Achaemenian practice and brought the Persians unprecedented wealth, power, and territory, and more.

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9780226251875

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The University of Chicago Press

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2015

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Religion, Empire, and Torture

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