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Religion, Empire, and Torture : The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib, Paperback / softback Book

Religion, Empire, and Torture : The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib Paperback / softback

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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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