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After September 11 Second Edition
Bruce Lincoln 9780226482033...After September 11 Second EditionBruce Lincoln ...terrorist attacks as evil incarnate. But their motives, asBruce Lincoln’s acclaimed Holy Terrors makes clear, were profoundly...intensely religious. Thus what we need after the events of 9/11,Lincoln argues, is greater clarity about what we take religion to...BOOK
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Explorations In, On, and With Comparison
Bruce Lincoln 9780226564074...Explorations In, On, and With ComparisonBruce Lincoln ...religionBruce Lincoln argues in Apples and Oranges for a comparatism of a more modest sort.Lincoln presents...the Spanish Civil War. Ultimately,Lincoln argues that concentrating one's focus on a relatively small...BOOK
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Studies in Ideology & Practice
Bruce Lincoln 9780226482002 Death, War...Studies in Ideology & PracticeBruce Lincoln ...specialists in Indo-European religion and society,Bruce Lincoln expresses in these essays his severe doubts...descriptions of the Otherworld from many cultures. WhileLincoln later rejects this methodology, these chapters remain...BOOK
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Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars: Critical Explorations in the History of Religions,
Lincoln April 2012Explorations in the History of ReligionsBruce Lincoln 9780226481876...ReligionsBruce Lincoln Bruce Lincoln is one of the most...and authority. In Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars,Lincoln assembles a collection of essays that both illustrates and...nonhistorical approaches to the study of religions. In between,Lincoln presents new examinations of problems in ancient religions...BOOK
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Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib
Bruce Lincoln 9780226251875...Persia, with a Postscript on Abu GhraibBruce Lincoln ...acquired new urgency, and in Religion, Empire, and Torture,Bruce Lincoln approaches the problem via a classic but little-studied...little-studied case: Achaemenian Persia.Lincoln identifies three core components of an imperial theology that...BOOK
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Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship
Bruce Lincoln 9780226482026...Bruce Lincoln In Theorizing Myth,Bruce Lincoln...expanded use of writing and the practice of Athenian democracy.Lincoln then turns his attention to the period when myth was recuperated...In the final section of this wide-ranging book,Lincoln advocates a fresh approach to the study of myth, providing...BOOK
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Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf: A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective, Ginzburg,
Lincoln March 2020Comparative Perspective Carlo Ginzburg andBruce Lincoln 9780226674414...Comparative Perspective Carlo Ginzburg andBruce Lincoln ...In this book, eminent scholars Carlo Ginzburg andBruce Lincoln offer a uniquely comparative look at the trial and startling...justify their rule over the Baltic peasantry. As Ginzburg andLincoln debate their own and others’ perspectives, they also reflect...BOOK
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Between History and Myth: Stories of Harald Fairhair and the Founding of the State,
Lincoln September 2014Fairhair and the Founding of the StateBruce Lincoln 9780226140926...Fairhair and the Founding of the StateBruce Lincoln ...unified Norway in the ninth century as its central example,Bruce Lincoln illuminates the way a state’s foundation story blurs the...through details of character, incident, and plot structure.Lincoln reveals a pattern whereby texts written in Iceland were more...BOOK
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Authority: Construction and Corrosion,
Lincoln August 2019Authority Construction and CorrosionBruce Lincoln 9780226481982...Authority Construction and CorrosionBruce Lincoln ...subversive speech? In this fascinating and intricate analysis,Bruce Lincoln argues that authority is not an entity but an effect....Cold War scholarship, and American presidential politics,Lincoln offers a telling analysis of the performance of authority...BOOK
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Abraham
Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory Barry Schwartz 9780226741987...9780226741987 AbrahamLincoln and the Forge of National Memory Barry Schwartz...AbrahamLincoln has long dominated the pantheon of American presidents. From his lavish...close to losing his 1864 bid for reelection. In AbrahamLincoln and the Forge of National Memory, Barry Schwartz aims at...BOOK