Control, Coercion, and Constraint: The Role of Religion in Overcoming and Creating Structures of Dependency by Kinzig, Wolfram

Control, Coercion, and Constraint: The Role of Religion in Overcoming and Creating Structures of Dependency

This volume is based on a lecture series that was held during the academic year 2021-2022 at...
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Control, Coercion, and Constraint: The Role of Religion in Overcoming and Creating Structures of Dependency by Kinzig, Wolfram

Control, Coercion, and Constraint: The Role of Religion in Overcoming and Creating Structures of Dependency

€217,32

Control, Coercion, and Constraint: The Role of Religion in Overcoming and Creating Structures of Dependency

€217,32
Author: Wolfram Kinzig
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

This volume is based on a lecture series that was held during the academic year 2021-2022 at the University of Bonn. Its contributors explore the role of religion in overcoming and creating structures of dependency from different disciplines and academic backgrounds.

The question of the role of religion in justifying, perpetuating, modifying, and abolishing slavery and other forms of strong asymmetrical dependency is still a much-debated topic within historical and social sciences. The equality of all human beings before God, gods, or the divine is deeply rooted in religious thought. Conversion to one or another religion has, therefore, often led to critique, transformation, and even abolition of existing social structures, institutions, and their corresponding dependencies.

Yet religious discourse has also been used to justify the subjection of individuals and whole peoples. In addition, throughout history, religious institutions themselves have often mirrored the social hierarchies and inequalities of the surrounding societies. Concomitantly, practitioners of these religious traditions have created systems of dependency within their own institutional, social, legal, and spiritual structures. This volume makes clear that not even the metaphysical world is free of dependencies: influential strands of almost all major religious traditions envisage hierarchies of gods, angels, demons, and other metaphysical beings.



Author: Wolfram Kinzig
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: 12/30/2024
Pages: 341
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.64lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9783111380438

About the Author
Wolfram Kinzig and Barbara Loose, University of Bonn, Germany.

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