{"product_id":"sacred-kingship-in-world-history-9780231204170","title":"Sacred Kingship in World History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSacred kingship has been the core political form, in small-scale societies and in vast empires, for much of world history. This collaborative and interdisciplinary book recasts the relationship between religion and politics by exploring this institution in long-term and global comparative perspective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[An] excellent edited collection. -- Christopher Smith * Anatomies of Power *\u003cbr\u003eThe brilliance of this volume, its abiding appeal, lies in unsettling teleologies. * Journal of Church and State *\u003cbr\u003eThis book is extremely ambitious, for it deals with no less a subject than provincializing secular modernity through a global history. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *\u003cbr\u003eMustering the typological distinction between immanentist and transcendentalist religions, \u003ci\u003eSacred Kingship in World History\u003c\/i\u003e addresses forms of sacred rulership and sovereignty over a long swath of human prehistory and history, to the present. Well-framed by Moin and Strathern, this book will constitute an unavoidable point of reference for further discussion of conceptions and practices of sovereignty. -- Philippe Buc, author of \u003ci\u003eHoly War, Martyrdom, and Terror: Christianity, Violence, and the West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis broad-ranging and ambitious book is a model of theoretically informed, comparative world history. The individual case studies are impressively erudite, cover an astonishing geographical and chronological range, and are composed with an unusual level of collective rigor. Together, they demonstrate how the tension between immanent and transcendent kingship has shaped history in delicate and constantly evolving ways that continue to be profoundly felt in our world today. -- Giancarlo Casale, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ottoman Age of Exploration\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e1. Sacred Kingship in World History: Between Transcendence and Immanence, by A. Azfar Moin and Alan Strathern\u003cbr\u003e2. Kings Before Kingship: The Politics of the Enchanted Universe, by Marshall Sahlins\u003cbr\u003e3. Immanence in the Andes (1000–1700 ce): Divine Kingship, Stranger-Kingship, and Diarchy, by Peter Gose\u003cbr\u003e4. Gods and Kings in Ancient Mesopotamia, by Nicole Brisch\u003cbr\u003e5. Pharaonic Kingship and Its Biblical Deconstruction, by Jan Assmann\u003cbr\u003e6. King, Divinity, and Law in Ancient Greece, by Lynette Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e7.  Humanizing the Divine and Divinizing the Human in Early China:  Comparative Reflections on Ritual, Sacrifice, and Sovereignty, by  Michael Puett\u003cbr\u003e8. Caliphal Sovereignty or the Immanence of Transcendence, by Aziz Al-Azmeh\u003cbr\u003e9. Neoplatonic Kingship in the Islamic World: Akbar’s Millennial History, by Jos Gommans and Said Reza Huseini\u003cbr\u003e10. Hobbes the Egyptian: The Return to Pharaoh, or the Ancient Roots of Secular Politics, by Robert A. Yelle\u003cbr\u003e11. Ancient Apostasy, Modern Drama: Henrik Ibsen’s Emperor and Galilean, by Nicole Jerr\u003cbr\u003e12. The Last Hindu King: How Nepal Desanctified Its Monarchy, by David N. Gellner\u003cbr\u003e13. A Caliphate Beyond Politics: The Sovereignty of ISIS, by Faizal Devji\u003cbr\u003e14. Sacred Kingship: A Synthesis, by A. Azfar Moin and Alan Strathern\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864263242071,"sku":"9780231204170","price":29.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231204170.jpg?v=1722271133","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sacred-kingship-in-world-history-9780231204170","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}