"Responding to the profound challenges of our times, this book provides a comparative and cross-cultural exploration of the role of religion in war in a long historical perspective, from the second millennium BCE, and even earlier, and up to early modernity. Individual chapters focus on the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean basin, Europe, and North Africa. Widely diverse case studies explore the historic link between the conduct of war and the growing complexity of human society conditioned by the ownership of ideological authority, which in most historical societies was religious"--
Responding to the profound challenges of our times, this book provides a comparative and cross-cultural exploration of the role of religion in war in a long historical perspective, from the second millennium BCE, and even earlier, up to early modernity.
Individual chapters focus on the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean basin, Europe and North Africa. Widely diverse case studies explore the historic link between the conduct of war and the growing complexity of human society conditioned by the ownership of ideological authority. The book explores how in most historical societies this authority was religious.
Written by experts from different disciplinary perspectives, the volume challenges common assumptions about the historical relationship between religion and war and extends our understanding of the dangers and complexities of today's world.
Recenzijas
This book advances some bold, provocative theories and some compelling case-studies on religion and war have interacted over the long sweep of history. More importantly, it declares this whole field of study open for business. * Alec Ryrie, Professor of the History of Chrisitanity, Durham University, UK * Replete with profound insights into recurrent attitudes to war, this marvellous collection tracks the military-religious complex (Ian Morris) the collusion between throne and altar in the wars of different ages and civilisations. We see it still when the Russian Orthodox Church blesses Putins wars, and in the wars in the names of Allah and Jehovah in the Middle East today. * Beatrice Heuser, Chair of International Relations, University of Glasgow, UK *
Papildus informācija
Explores of the role of religion in war from a comparative and cross-cultural perspective, covering the second millennium BCE until early modernity.
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Religion And War - A Recurring Historical Nexus, Irene
Polinskaya, Alan James, Yannis Papadogiannakis (Kings College London, UK)
Part I: Near East, Egypt and the Hebrew Bible (3000-500 BCE)
2. The Plans of the Gods Are Destroyed: Babylonian Doubts about The Gods
and War, Seth Richardson (University Of Chicago, USA)
3. The Holy War of Eanatum In Light of the Early Dynastic Central
Babylonian Tradition, Xianhua Wang (Shanghai International Studies
University, China)
4. Let Us Step for Judgment before the Storm God: Hittite Declarations of
War And The Divine, Amir Gilan (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
5. How To Justify War: The Interlocking Hittite and Hebrew Genres of Treaty
And Prayer, Mary R. Bachvarova (Williamette University, USA)
6. Divine Intervention in Egyptian Warfare: The New Kingdom, Tony Spalinger
(University Of Auckland, New Zealand
7. The Cosmic Front: War and Its Impact on Official Religion In The
Neo-Assyrian Empire (C.1000-610 Bce)
Shana Zaia (University Of Vienna, Austria)
8. Their Seed Is No More: Rhetorical Strategies of Genocide In Ancient Egypt
and The Hebrew Bible, Laura M. Zucconi (Stockton University, USA)
9. Deuteronomic Laws of War, Nili Wazana (Hebrew University Of Jerusalem,
Israel)
Part II: Classical And Late Antiquity (500 BCE 700 CE)
10. Divine Honours and Religious Motivations in Greek Wars of the Classical
Period, Irene Polinskaya (Kings College London, UK)
11. Gods and Kings: Authority, Religion and Violence in the Maccabean Revolt,
Alex Mcauley (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
12. Roman Commanders without Auspices during the Last Three Centuries of the
Republic, Yann Berthelet, (Université de Ličge, Belgium)
13. Pollution, Divine Anger and Political Legitimacy in Romes Civil Wars,
Jack Lennon (University of Leicester, UK)
14.Visions of Victory: The Emperor Constantine and The Role of Epiphanies in
Military Context Yannis Papadogiannakis (Kings College London, UK)
15. The Early Christians and War: Tertullians Witness, Ben Kolbeck
(University of Cambridge, UK)
16. The Persian Conquest of Jerusalem (614) and the Religious Dimension of
the Last Great War Of Antiquity (603-628), Yuri Stoyanov (School Of
Oriental And African Studies, University of London, UK)
Part III: Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (700-1650)
17. Creating Enemies of God: The Sacralization of War And The Use of Takfir
In The Medieval Islamic West, Javier Albarrįn (Universidad Autónoma De
Madrid, Spain)
18. The Role of Religion in the Mongol Conquest of Baghdad in 1258, Nassima
Neggaz (New College of Florida, USA)
19. Battle, Divine Judgement and Strategy In The Early Years of The Hundred
Years War, Jan Willem Honig (Netherlands Defence Academy, The Netherlands)
20. The Making of Isabella I of Castile, A Rear-Guard Crusader and Victor
over Nasrid Granada, Jorge Fernįndez-Santos (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos,
Madrid)
21. Gods Warriors in the Most Christian Kingdom: A Reconsideration of the
French Religious Wars, Penny Roberts (University Of Warwick, UK)
22. Protestantism, Identity and The Mobilization of Military Force: Huguenot
Troops In Swedens Baltic Campaigns, 1605-1614, Jaakko Björklund
,(University Of Helsinki, Finland)
23. Religion and War At Sea: Grotius, Richelieu And Just War In The Age of
Westphalian States And Global Empires, Alan James (Kings College London,
USA)
Part IV: A Longue Durée Perspective
24. The Military-Religious Complex: Gods, Kings and Violence Since The Ice
Age, Ian Morris (Stanford University, USA)
25. Religion, War and the Legitimation of Power: Another Perspective, Hans
Van Wees (University College London, UK)
Afterword. Religion and War: The Threat to Democracy, Richard Ned Lebow
(Kings College London, UK)
Bibliography
Index
Irene Polinskaya is Reader in Ancient History in the Department of Classics, Kings College London, UK.
Alan James is Reader in International History in the Department of War Studies, Kings College London, UK.
Ioannis Papadogiannakis is Senior Lecturer in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Kings College London, UK.
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