This ground-breaking study sets out a new understanding of transformations in the interaction between religion and political authority throughout history.
This ground-breaking study sets out a new understanding of transformations in the interaction between religion and political authority throughout history.
Alan Strathern is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Oxford, and Tutor and Fellow in History at Brasenose College, Oxford. He is the author of Kingship and Conversion in Sixteenth Century Sri Lanka: Portuguese Imperialism in a Buddhist Land (Cambridge, 2008), and co-editor with Zoltán Biedermann of Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History (2017). He was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in History in 2010.
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Introduction 1. The two forms of religion: being and nothingness 2. Religion as the fabric of the state 3. The two forms of sacred kingship: divinization and righteousness 4. The economy of ritual efficacy and the empirical reception of Christianity 5. The conversion of kings under the conditions of immanentism: Constantine to Cakobau 6. Dreams of state: conversion as the making of kings and subjects Conclusion Glossary of theoretical terms.
Introduction 1. The two forms of religion: being and nothingness 2. Religion as the fabric of the state 3. The two forms of sacred kingship: divinization and righteousness 4. The economy of ritual efficacy and the empirical reception of Christianity 5. The conversion of kings under the conditions of immanentism: Constantine to Cakobau 6. Dreams of state: conversion as the making of kings and subjects Conclusion Glossary of theoretical terms.
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