Violence in Antiquity / Gewalt in der Antike (eBook)

Religious Approaches to its Legitimation and Delegitimation / Religiöse Ansätze zu ihrer Legitimierung und Delegitimierung /

Johannes Breuer, Jochen Walter (Herausgeber)

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2023 | 1. Auflage
191 Seiten
Franz Steiner Verlag
978-3-515-13454-5 (ISBN)

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What is the role of religious aspects in legitimizing or delegitimizing violence? The articles of this volume provide an important contribution to this crucial social and scholarly debate. Analysing a broad spectrum of case studies from antiquity, they focus on religious justifications or evaluations of recommended, performed, or forbidden acts of violence - regardless of the question of their historicity. Not only late antiquity and Christianity are considered, but also pre-Christian Greek and Roman civilizations, Judaism, literary myth, and atheism. The case studies cover the period from the fifth century BCE to the fifth century CE and a broad geographical scope extending from Gaul to Israel and Egypt. This volume offers new insights into a highly topical issue.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.10.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• ISBN-10: 3-515-13454-9 / 3515134549
• ISBN-13: 978-3-515-13454-5 / 9783515134545