01070nam a2200289 i 450099100020047970753620020527110738.0010810s1980 it ||| | ita b10044188-39ule_instPARLA217102ExLDip.to Filosofiaita809Trilling, Lionel159851Al di là della cultura :saggi su Austen, Wordsworth, Keats, Freud, Babels, Leavis, Snow, Hawthorne e Joyce /Lionel Trilling ; a cura di Guido FinkFirenze :La nuova Italia,1980XVI, 197 p. ;21 cm.DimensioniTrad. di Guido FinkTit. orig.: Beyond cultureLetteraturaSec. 19.-20.Fink, Guido.b1004418817-02-1727-06-02991000200479707536LE005 MF 35 M 311LE005A-1087le005-E0.00-l- 00000.i1005215x27-06-02Al di là della cultura193018UNISALENTOle00501-01-01ma -itait 0103047nam 2200649 a 450 991078106840332120200520144314.01-282-53790-397866125379050-226-48191-310.7208/9780226481913(CKB)2550000000007459(EBL)485972(OCoLC)593283266(SSID)ssj0000342297(PQKBManifestationID)11947747(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342297(PQKBWorkID)10270836(PQKB)10998289(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122977(MiAaPQ)EBC485972(DE-B1597)524030(OCoLC)1135593015(DE-B1597)9780226481913(Au-PeEL)EBL485972(CaPaEBR)ebr10366861(CaONFJC)MIL253790(EXLCZ)99255000000000745920061113d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReligion, empire, and torture[electronic resource] the case of Achaemenian Persia, with a postscript on Abu Ghraib /Bruce LincolnChicago University of Chicago Press20071 online resource (195 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-48196-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-167) and index.Introduction -- Center and periphery -- God's chosen -- Creation -- Microcosms, wonders, paradise -- The dark side of paradise -- Postscript: on Abu Ghraib and some related contemporary matters.How does religion stimulate and feed imperial ambitions and violence? Recently this question has acquired new urgency, and in Religion, Empire, and Torture, Bruce Lincoln approaches the problem via a classic but little-studied case: Achaemenian Persia.Lincoln identifies three core components of an imperial theology that have transhistorical and contemporary relevance: dualistic ethics, a theory of divine election, and a sense of salvific mission. Beyond this, he asks, how did the Achaemenians understand their place in the cosmos and their moral status in relation Religion and politicsReligion and politicsIranCase studiesIranHistoryTo 640achaemenian persia, abu ghraib, religion, empire, imperialism, violence, government, ambition, conquest, invasion, territory, expansion, theology, iran, middle east, dynasty, nonfiction, history, dualism, ethics, divine election, mission, salvation, cosmos, morality, paradise lost, wealth, power, torture, politics, purpose, land rights.Religion and politics.Religion and politics935/.05Lincoln Bruce260225MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781068403321Religion, empire, and torture1334583UNINA