LEADER 02412nam 22004933 450 001 996571862303316 005 20231218084508.0 010 $a3-11-067632-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110676327 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31016830 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31016830 035 $a(DE-B1597)536266 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110676327 035 $a(EXLCZ)9929374732800041 100 $a20231218d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPower of the Priests $ePolitical Use of Religious Knowledge 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBerlin/Boston :$cWalter de Gruyter GmbH,$d2023. 210 4$dİ2024. 215 $a1 online resource (330 pages) 311 $a3-11-067621-4 330 $aReligion plays a central role in nearly every aspect in people's life of most pre-modern cultures. Especially the interconnection between religion and politics is a common fact but the details of this relation and interacting processes behind this are not substantially studied. Therefore, this volume does not aim to confirm the linkage of religion and politics in general but to investigate its functionalities in political processes. A focus is placed on the political role of religious personnel beyond their religious and cultic tasks and their influence in pre-modern societies from a cross-cultural perspective. Specialists from various disciplines present their research based on case studies. Thereby this interdisciplinary volume covers a wide geographical and chronological range from ancient Egypt in the Bronze Age until medieval England. These papers are organised according to core functions questioning the instrumentalisation of religious personnel. 606 $aHISTORY / Medieval$2bisacsh 610 $aBrahmans. 610 $aoracles. 610 $apriests. 610 $aruler legitimacy. 615 7$aHISTORY / Medieval. 676 $a322.109 700 $aKubisch$b Sabine$01461856 701 $aKlinkott$b Hilmar$0265965 712 02$aROOTS - Social, Environmental, and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies (EXC 2150)$4fnd$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996571862303316 996 $aPower of the Priests$93670685 997 $aUNISA