LEADER 04756nam 22005895 450 001 996580171803316 005 20240306015011.0 010 $a3-11-134200-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9783111342009 035 $a(CKB)30365703100041 035 $a(DE-B1597)665163 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783111342009 035 $a(EXLCZ)9930365703100041 100 $a20240306h20242024 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aImperial Histories: Eurasian Empires Compared. $hVolume 1, $iEmpires and Gods ; The Role of Religions in Imperial History /$fed. by Jörg Rüpke, Michal Biran, Yuri Pines 210 1$aBerlin ;$aBoston : $cDe Gruyter, $d[2024] 210 4$d©2024 215 $a1 online resource (VIII, 368 p.) 225 0 $aImperial Histories: Eurasian Empires Compared ;$vVolume 1 311 $a3-11-134162-3 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tForeword -- $tTable of Contents -- $tList of Maps -- $tEmpires and Religions: An Introduction -- $t1 Imperial Ideology and Religious Pluralism in the A?okan Inscriptional Corpus -- $t2 Secular Theocracy? State and Religion in Early China Revisited -- $t3 On Imperial Intermediaries: Elites and the Promotion of the Hellenistic Ruler Cult in Ptolemaic Phoenicia and Cyprus -- $t4 Religion in, for, and against the Roman Empire -- $t5 Envisioning Dualism and Emplacing the Eschaton: Apocalyptic Eschatology and Empire in Sasanian Iran -- $t6 A Christian Roman Empire? Byzantium between Imperial Monotheism and Religious Multiplicity, Fourth to Ninth Century CE (and Beyond) -- $t7 "Action Buddhism" in the Medieval Chinese Empire -- $t8 Religions in the Mongol Empire Revisited: Exchanges, Conversion, Consequences -- $t9 Religion and the Medieval Western Empire (CE 919-1519) -- $t10 A Populist Reformation: The Early Modern Transformation of Islam in the Ottoman Empire -- $t11 Religion and Politics in the Mughal Empire of India -- $tList of Contributors -- $tIndex 330 $aInteraction with religions was one of the most demanding tasks for imperial leaders. Religions could be the glue that held an empire together, bolstering the legitimacy of individual rulers and of the imperial enterprise as a whole. Yet, they could also challenge this legitimacy and jeopardize an empire's cohesiveness. As empires by definition ruled heterogeneous populations, they had to interact with a variety of religious cults, creeds, and establishments. These interactions moved from accommodation and toleration, to cooptation, control, or suppression; from aligning with a single religion to celebrating religious diversity or even inventing a new transcendent civic religion; and from lavish patronage to indifference. The volume's contributors investigate these dynamics in major Eurasian empires-from those that functioned in a relatively tolerant religious landscape (Ashokan India, early China, Hellenistic, and Roman empires) to those that allied with a single proselytizing or non-proselytizing creed (Sassanian Iran, Christian and Islamic empires), to those that tried to accommodate different creeds through "pay for pray" policies (Tang China, the Mongols), exploring the advantages and disadvantages of each of these choices. 610 $aAniquity. 610 $aEmpire. 610 $aEurasia. 610 $aMiddle Ages. 610 $aReligion. 702 $aBenn$b James A., $4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aBiran$b Michal , $4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aBiran$b Michal, $4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aBonnet$b Corinne, $4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aCanepa$b Matthew P., $4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aOlivelle$b Patrick, $4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aPines$b Yuri, $4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aPines$b Yuri, $4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aPreiser-Kapeller$b Johannes, $4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aRüpke$b Jörg, $4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aRüpke$b Jörg, $4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aScales$b Len, $4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aTezcan$b Baki, $4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aWink$b André, $4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996580171803316 996 $aImperial Histories: Eurasian Empires Compared$94148413 997 $aUNISA