Violence in Antiquity / Gewalt in der Antike - Religious Approaches to its Legitimation and Delegitimation / Religiöse Ansätze zu ihrer Legitimierung und Delegitimierung
Verlag | Franz Steiner Verlag |
Auflage | 2023 |
Seiten | 191 |
Format | 21,5 x 1,3 x 25,3 cm |
Gewicht | 355 g |
Reihe | Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne 26 |
ISBN-10 | 3515134506 |
ISBN-13 | 9783515134507 |
Bestell-Nr | 51513450A |
What is the role of religious aspects in legitimizing or delegitimizing violence? The articles of this volume provide an important contribution to this crucial social and scholarly debate. Analysing a broad spectrum of case studies from antiquity, they focus on religious justifications or evaluations of recommended, performed, or forbidden acts of violence - regardless of the question of their historicity. Not only late antiquity and Christianity are considered, but also pre-Christian Greek and Roman civilizations, Judaism, literary myth, and atheism. The case studies cover the period from the fifth century BCE to the fifth century CE and a broad geographical scope extending from Gaul to Israel and Egypt. This volume offers new insights into a highly topical issue.