Religion, Empire, and Torture: The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib by Bruce Lincoln

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

Bruce Lincoln

192 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

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How does religion stimulate and feed imperial ambitions and violence? Recently this question has acquired new urgency, and in Religion, Empire, and Torture, Bruce Lincoln approaches the problem via a classic but little-studied case: Achaemenian Pe...

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