Información General

• Autores: Irene Polinskaya (coord.), Alan James (coord.), Yannis Papadogiannakis (coord.)
• Editores: Bloomsbury Academic
• Año de publicación: 2024
• País: Reino Unido
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 978-0-5676-9780-6, 978-0-5676-9779-0, 978-0-5676-9781-3, 978-0-5676-9778-3, 978-0-5676-9967-1
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Resumen

• Responding to the profound challenges of our times, this book provides a comparative and cross-cultural exploration of the role of religion in war in a long historical perspective, from the second millennium BCE, and even earlier, up to early modernity.

  Individual chapters focus on the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean basin, Europe and North Africa. Widely diverse case studies explore the historic link between the conduct of war and the growing complexity of human society conditioned by the ownership of ideological authority. The book explores how in most historical societies this authority was religious.

  Written by experts from different disciplinary perspectives, the volume challenges common assumptions about the historical relationship between religion and war and extends our understanding of the dangers and complexities of today's world.

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Listado de artículos

• • Introduction. Religion and war – a recurring historical nexus

    Irene Polinskaya, Alan James, Yannis Papadogiannakis

    págs. 1-18

    

  • 1. Near East, Egypt and the Hebrew Bible (3000-500 BCE)

    • ‘The plans of the gods are destroyed’: Babylonian doubts about the gods and war

      Seth Richardson

      págs. 21-39

      

    • The ‘holy war’ of Eanatum in light of the Early Dynastic Central Babylonian tradition

      Xianhua Wang

      págs. 40-50

      

    • ‘Let us step for judgement before the Storm God’: Hittite ‘declarations of war’ and the divine

      Amir Gilan

      págs. 51-64

      

    • How to justify war: the interlocking Hittite and Hebrew genres of treaty and prayer

      Mary R. Bachvarova

      págs. 65-84

      

    • Divine intervention in Egyptian warfare: the New Kingdom

      Anthony Spalinger

      págs. 85-102

      

    • The cosmic front: war and its impact on official religion in the Neo-Assyrian Empire (c. 1000–610 BCE)

      Shana Zaia

      págs. 103-120

      

    • Their seed is no more: rhetorical strategies of genocide in ancient Egypt and the Hebrew Bible

      Laura M. Zucconi

      págs. 121-132

      

    • Deuteronomic laws of war

      Nili Wazana

      págs. 133-150

      

  • 2. Classical and Late Antiquity (500 BCE-700 CE)

    • Divine honours and religious motivations in Greek wars of the Classical period

      Irene Polinskaya

      págs. 153-174

      

    • Gods and kings: authority, religion and violence in the Maccabean Revolt

      Alex McAuley

      págs. 175-191

      

    • Roman commanders without auspices during the last three centuries of the Republic?

      Yann Berthelet

      págs. 192-208

      

    • Pollution, divine anger and political legitimacy in Rome’s civil wars

      Jack Lennon

      págs. 209-225

      

    • Visions of victory: Emperor Constantine and the role of epiphanies in military context

      Yannis Papadogiannakis

      págs. 226-241

      

    • The early Christians and war: Tertullian’s witness

      Ben Kolbeck

      págs. 242-263

      

    • The Persian conquest of Jerusalem (614) and the religious dimension of the ‘last great war of antiquity’ (603–28)

      Yuri Stoyanov

      págs. 264-298

      

  • 3. Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (700-1650)

    • Creating enemies of God: the sacralization of war and the use of takfīr in the medieval Islamic West

      Javier Albarrán

      págs. 301-320

      

    • The role of religion in the Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258

      Nassima Neggaz

      págs. 321-337

      

    • Battle, divine judgement and strategy in the early years of the Hundred Years’ War

      Jan Willem Honing

      págs. 338-349

      

    • Fashioning of Isabella I of Castile as a rear-guard crusader and victor over Nasrid Granada

      Jorge Fernández-Santos Ortiz-Iribas

      págs. 350-365

      

    • God’s warriors in the Most Christian kingdom: a reconsideration of the French religious wars

      Penny Roberts

      págs. 366-377

      

    • Protestantism, identity and the mobilization of military force: Huguenot troops in Sweden’s Baltic campaigns, 1605–14

      Jaakko Björklund

      págs. 378-396

      

    • Religion and war at sea: Grotius, Richelieu and ‘just war’ in the age of Westphalian states and global empires

      Alan James

      págs. 397-410

      

  • 4. A Longue Durée Perspective

    • The military-religious complex: gods, kings and violence since the Ice Age

      Ian Morris

      págs. 413-442

      

    • Religion, war and the legitimation of power: another perspective

      Hans Van Wees

      págs. 443-464