The price of monotheism /
"Nothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion. In this nuanced consideration of his own controversial Moses the Egyptian, renowned Egyptologist Jan Assmann answers his critics, extending and building upon ideas from his previous book. Maintai...
| Основен автор: | Assmann, Jan. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English German |
| Публикувано: |
Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
℗♭2010.
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Print version::
Price of monotheism. |
Съдържание:
- The mosaic distinction and the problem of intolerance. How many religions stand behind the Old Testament?
- What is truth?
- Intolerance, violence, and exclusion
- Constructions of the other : religious satire
- Monotheism, a counter-religion to what? Monotheism versus polytheism
- Akhenaten and Moses : Egyptian and Biblical monotheism
- Monotheism as anti-cosmotheism
- Monotheism as political theology : ethics, justice, freedom
- Law and morality in the "pagan" world and the theologization of justice in monotheism
- The clash of memories : between idolatry and iconoclasm. The legend of the lepers and the Amarna trauma in Egypt
- Iconoclasm and iconolatry
- Prisca theologia and the abolition of the mosaic distinction
- The tightening of the mosaic distinction and the rise of paganology
- Sigmund Freud and progress in intellectuality. The Jewish and Greek options
- The trauma of monotheism : analytic hermeneutics and mnemohistory
- The ban on graven images as progress in intellectuality
- The psychohistorical consequences of monotheism. The "scriptural turn" : from cult to book
- Into the crypt
- The invention of the inner self
- Counterreligion and the concept of sin.