Power of the Priests Political Use of Religious Knowledge
Religion plays a central role in nearly every aspect in people's life of most pre-modern cultures. Especially the interconnection between religion and politics is a common fact but the details of this relation and interacting processes behind this are not substantially studied. Therefore, this...
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Berlin/Boston :
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
2023.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction
- Shaping Policy: Case Study from Ancient Egypt
- The Political Role of an Egyptian Priest under the Early Ptolemies: The Case of Manetho
- Oracles as an Instrument for Political Decisions and Royal Legitimation: A Case Study of Ancient Egypt
- Experts for Teaching and Consulting
- Politics in the Life of Daniel the Stylite: The Holy Man as a Political Player in Late Antique Constantinople
- Did Brahmins have Power in Premodern India?
- Instrumentalizing the 'Priests'
- Ideologists, Instigators or 'Stage Props'? Priests and Popular Protest in the English Rising of 1381
- Gender, Politics and Religion in Antiquity: The Challenge of the Reign of Queen Alexandra
- 'Vassal' or 'political player'? Towards a re-assessment of Willibrord's political activity in Merovingian Francia (AD 690-739)
- Control of Knowledge: Documenting Priestly Power
- The Power of the Rabbis: Reading Urban Stories of Late Antiquity
- "Domination through Knowledge": The Sacred Dimension of Bureaucracy in the Oracular Sanctuary of Dodona
- Behind the Scene: Religion at the Service of Politics in Ancient Egypt: Views from Philae Island
- In the Field of Power: Priests and Legitimization
- Power through Pilgrimage: The Making of the Papacy
- A New Political Order in the Late Sixth Century BC Athens Powered by the Delphic Oracle
- Keepers of the Secrets of the Sky, the Earth, and the Underworld: The High Priests of Ptah at Memphis During the Kushite and the Saite-Persian Periods (c. 728−332 BC)
- Conclusion
- Index of Names
