Theokratie und theokratischer Diskurs
Die Rede von der Gottesherrschaft und ihre politisch-sozialen Auswirkungen im interkulturellen Vergleich
edited by Kai Trampedach and Andreas Pecar
Hardback (Published)
(April 2013)
ISBN: 9783161519871
6.57 x 9.13 inches
Price: $168.00
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English summary: The authors study the relationship between religion and politics in various cultures and eras as exemplified by an extreme case: theocracy, the concept of a reign of God on earth. This concept belongs to the tradition of the three major monotheistic religions. Its persuasive power however is subject to the cycles of history, in which phases of recovery and slump, escalation and de-escalation alternate. Since theocracy is a deep-seated religious tradition, it can always be reasserted in identity crises. In the articles which deal with the historical situations of pharaonic Egypt and biblical Egypt up to the present time, the authors study the conditions under which the theocratic argument falls on fertile soil, the protagonists or status groups who use the theocratic argument and the political and social effects which are connected to each of these. German description: Die Autoren der Beitrage dieses Bandes untersuchen das Verhaltnis von Religion und Politik kultur- und epochenubergreifend anhand eines Extremfalls: der Theokratie, das heisst der Idee einer Gottesherrschaft auf Erden. Diese Idee gehort zur Tradition der drei grossen monotheistischen Religionen. In den einzelnen Beitragen, die sich auf historische Konstellationen vom pharaonischen Agypten und biblischen Israel bis in die Gegenwart beziehen, wird danach gefragt, unter welchen Bedingungen das theokratische Argument auf fruchtbaren Boden fallt, welche Akteure oder Statusgruppen sich des theokratischen Arguments bedienen, und welche politischen und gesellschaftlichen Folgewirkungen damit jeweils verknupft sind. Mit Beitragen von: Jan Assmann, Martin Leuenberger, Rainer Albertz, Egon Flaig, Kai Trampedach, Matthias Konradt, Ronen Reichman, Ulrich Gotter, Guy Stroumsa, Lutz Greisiger, Sebastian Scholz, Steffen Patzold, Tilmann Nagel, Susanne Enderwitz, Thomas Kaufmann, Volker Reinhardt, Christopf Strohm, Andreas Pecar, Ronald G. Asch, Hans-Dieter Metzger, Gudrun Kramer
- Edited by Andreas Pecar
- Edited by Kai Trampedach
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