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In Religion, Empire, and Torture, Bruce Lincoln identifies three core components of an imperial theology that have transhistorical and contemporary relevance: dualistic ethics, a theory of divine election, and a sense of salvific mission. He shows how these religious ideas shaped Achaemenian practice and brought the Persians unprecedented wealth, power, and territory, but also produced unmanageable contradictions, as in a gruesome case of torture discussed in the book's final chapter. Close study of that episode leads Lincoln back to the present with a postscript that provides a searing and utterly novel perspective on the photographs from Abu Ghraib.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Religion: general

• Full title: Religion, Empire, and Torture
• Subtitle: The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib
• Author: Bruce Lincoln
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780226251875
• ISBN: 022625187X
• ID: 09231831
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 122 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 153 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. February 2015

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