Religion, empire, and torture : the case of Achaemenian Persia, with a postscript on Abu Ghraib /
"How does religion stimulate and feed imperial ambitions and violence? 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 transhi...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
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