Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History by Alan Strathern

Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History

Alan Strathern

404 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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Why was religion so important for rulers in the pre-modern world? And how did the world come to be dominated by just a handful of religious traditions, especially Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism? Drawing on sociology and anthropology, as well as...

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