The price of monotheism
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Stanford, Calif.
Stanford University Press
2010
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| In: | Year: 2010 |
| Reviews: | A matter of distinction (2010) (Slavet, Eliza)
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| Further subjects: | B
Religion and culture History
B Monotheism History B Paganism History |
| Item Description: | "The Price of Monotheism was originally published in German in 2003 under the title Die mosaische Unterscheidung oder der Preis des Monotheismus 2003, Carl Hanser Verlag.". - Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-140). - 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 iconolatory -- Theologia prisca 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 the Greek option -- The trauma of monotheism : analytic hermeneutics and mnemohistory -- The ban on graven images as progress in intellectuality. The psycho-historical consequences of monotheism. The "scriptural turn" : from cult to book -- Into the crypt -- The invention of the inner self -- Counter-religion and the concept of sin |
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| ISBN: | 0804761590 |