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245 00 a| Empires and gods :b| the role of religions in imperial history / edited by Jörg Rüpke, Michal Biran and Yuri Pines.;

264 1 a| Berlin ;a| Boston :b| De Gruyter,c| [2024];

300 a| viii, 368 pages :b| illustrations (some color) ;c| 24 cm.;

336 a| textb| txt2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediatedb| n2| rdamedia;

338 a| volumeb| nc2| rdacarrier;

490 0 a| Imperial histories: Eurasian empires compared;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 00 g| List of Maps --t| Empires and Religions: An Introduction --t| Imperial Ideology and Religious Pluralism in the Aśokan Inscriptional Corpus --t| Secular Theocracy? State and Religion in Early China Revisited --t| On Imperial Intermediaries: Elites and the Promotion of the Hellenistic Ruler Cult in Ptolemaic Phoenicia and Cyprus --t| Religion in, for, and against the Roman Empire --t| Envisioning Dualism and Emplacing the Eschaton: Apocalyptic Eschatology and Empire in Sasanian Iran --t| A Christian Roman Empire? Byzantium between Imperial Monotheism and Religious Multiplicity, Fourth to Ninth Century CE (and Beyond) --t| "Action Buddhism" in the Medieval Chinese Empire --t| Religions in the Mongol Empire Revisited: Exchanges, Conversion, Consequences --t| Religion and the Medieval Western Empire (CE 919-1519) --t| A Populist Reformation: The Early Modern Transformation of Islam in the Ottoman Empire --t| Religion and Politics in the Mughal Empire of India --g| List of Contributors --g| Index;

520 1 a| "Interaction with religions was one of the most demanding tasks for imperial leaders. Religions could be the glue that held an empire together, bolstering the legitimacy of individual rulers and of the imperial enterprise as a whole. Yet, they could also challenge this legitimacy and jeopardize an empire's cohesiveness. As empires by definition ruled heterogeneous populations, they had to interact with a variety of religious cults, creeds, and establishments. These interactions moved from accommodation and toleration, to cooptation, control, or suppression; from aligning with a single religion to celebrating religious diversity or even inventing a new transcendent civic religion; and from lavish patronage to indifference.The volume's contributors investigate these dynamics in major Eurasian empires--from those that functioned in a relatively tolerant religious landscape (Ashokan India, early China, Hellenistic, and Roman empires) to those that allied with a single proselytizing or non-proselytizing creed (Sassanian Iran, Christian and Islamic empires), to those that tried to accommodate different creeds through "pay for pray" policies (Tang China, the Mongols), exploring the advantages and disadvantages of each of these choices." -- https://www.degruyter.com;

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650 0 a| Middle Ages.=| ^A16319;

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Empires and gods : the role of religions in imperial history / edited by Jörg Rüpke, Michal Biran and Yuri Pines.

Other author	Rüpke, Jörg, editor.
Other author	Biran, Michal, editor.
Other author	Pines, Yuri, editor.
Format	Book
Publication	Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2024]
Copyright Date	©2024
Description	viii, 368 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Religion. Middle Ages. Religion and politics--History. Eurasia--Antiquities. Eurasia.

Series	Imperial histories: Eurasian empires compared
Contents	List of Maps -- Empires and Religions: An Introduction -- Imperial Ideology and Religious Pluralism in the Aśokan Inscriptional Corpus -- Secular Theocracy? State and Religion in Early China Revisited -- On Imperial Intermediaries: Elites and the Promotion of the Hellenistic Ruler Cult in Ptolemaic Phoenicia and Cyprus -- Religion in, for, and against the Roman Empire -- Envisioning Dualism and Emplacing the Eschaton: Apocalyptic Eschatology and Empire in Sasanian Iran -- A Christian Roman Empire? Byzantium between Imperial Monotheism and Religious Multiplicity, Fourth to Ninth Century CE (and Beyond) -- "Action Buddhism" in the Medieval Chinese Empire -- Religions in the Mongol Empire Revisited: Exchanges, Conversion, Consequences -- Religion and the Medieval Western Empire (CE 919-1519) -- A Populist Reformation: The Early Modern Transformation of Islam in the Ottoman Empire -- Religion and Politics in the Mughal Empire of India -- List of Contributors -- Index
Review	"Interaction with religions was one of the most demanding tasks for imperial leaders. Religions could be the glue that held an empire together, bolstering the legitimacy of individual rulers and of the imperial enterprise as a whole. Yet, they could also challenge this legitimacy and jeopardize an empire's cohesiveness. As empires by definition ruled heterogeneous populations, they had to interact with a variety of religious cults, creeds, and establishments. These interactions moved from accommodation and toleration, to cooptation, control, or suppression; from aligning with a single religion to celebrating religious diversity or even inventing a new transcendent civic religion; and from lavish patronage to indifference.The volume's contributors investigate these dynamics in major Eurasian empires--from those that functioned in a relatively tolerant religious landscape (Ashokan India, early China, Hellenistic, and Roman empires) to those that allied with a single proselytizing or non-proselytizing creed (Sassanian Iran, Christian and Islamic empires), to those that tried to accommodate different creeds through "pay for pray" policies (Tang China, the Mongols), exploring the advantages and disadvantages of each of these choices." -- https://www.degruyter.com
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN	9783111341620
ISBN	3111341623

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