Religion, Empire, and Torture: The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib

Author:   Bruce Lincoln
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:  

9780226481968


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   01 July 2007
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Bruce Lincoln
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Dimensions:   Width: 1.60cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 2.40cm
Weight:   0.425kg
ISBN:  

9780226481968


ISBN 10:   0226481964
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   01 July 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"""The most important book about religion and terror since Mark Juergensmeyer's Terror in the Mind of God.... Both people of faith and others urgently need to consider our global destination. Bruce Lincoln helps in that endeavor by throwing into sharp relief the core issues about the relation between religion, the Enlightenment, multiple modernities, and what comes next."" - John R. Hall, Journal of Religion"""


The most important book about religion and terror since Mark Juergensmeyer's Terror in the Mind of God.... Both people of faith and others urgently need to consider our global destination. Bruce Lincoln helps in that endeavor by throwing into sharp relief the core issues about the relation between religion, the Enlightenment, multiple modernities, and what comes next. - John R. Hall, Journal of Religion


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Bruce Lincoln is the Caroline E. Haskell Professor of Divinity at the University of Chicago, where he is an associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and sits on the Committees on the History of Culture and the Ancient Mediterranean World. He is the author of nine books, including Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship and Holy Terrors: Thinking about Religion after September 11, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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