Control, Coercion, and Constraint
Subtitle: The Role of Religion in Creating and Overcoming Structures of Dependency
Series: Dependency and Slavery Studies 14
Publisher: de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
Published: 2024
Language: eng
Format: OA, ebook, hardcover
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9783111380438
Copyright date: 2024
First sentence: The ongoing debate about postcolonialism and recent events like the toppling of the statues of enslavers in England, the restitution of art looted by France during the colonial era, and the founding of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin have increased awareness in the West and especially in Europe of how historical and contemporary formsof coercion and oppression have impacted societies all over the world.
Table of contents: title: .; title: Contents; title: Acknowledgements V; title: Wolfram Kinzig and Barbara Loose; title: Introduction 1; title: God, Satan, and Humankind: Liberation from and; title: Dependency on Supernatural Forces; title: Jan Dietrich; title: Freedom and Dependency in Ancient Israel and the Ancient Near East 11; title: Ulrich Berges; title: The Semantics of Dependency in the Book of Isaiah and Beyond 27; title: Wolfram Kinzig; title: ‘I Abjure Satan, his Pomp, and his Service’: Exchanging Religious; title: Dependencies in the Early Church 45; title: Interactions between Religion and Politics; title: Ludwig David Morenz; title: Can the Subaltern . . . Write? Rediscovering the “He”-tribe from Serabit el; title: Khadim and the Invention of Alphabetic Writing 4000 years ago 67; title: Lewis Doney; title: Creating Dependency by Means of its Overcoming: A Case Study from the; title: Rise of Tibetan Buddhism 89; title: Marion Gymnich; title: ‘There is a Great Difference between Christianity and Religion at the South’:; title: References to Religion in Harriet Jacobs’s Slave Narrative Incidents in the Life; title: of a Slave Girl (1861) 109; title: Sabine Feist; title: Relics as Resource: Dependency from Holy Remains 127; title: Julia A.B. Hegewald; title: Vīraśaiva and Jaina Rivalries in Medieval South India: Creating and; title: Overcoming Structures of Dependency 155; title: Religion and Gender Dependency; title: Maria Munkholt Christensen; title: Sisters and Equals? Slavery and Hierarchies in Early Monastic Communities; title: for Women 181; title: Sinah Theres Kloß; title: Beyond Subordination versus Emancipation: Caribbean Godna (Tattoos) as; title: Means of Recreating Social Relations and Affective Bonds 205; title: Religion and the Dialectic of Overcoming and Creating; title: Dependency; title: Julia Winnebeck; title: Serving God: Structures of Dependency in the Ecclesiastical Realm 227; title: Michael Schulz; title: The Impact of Faith: Bartolomé de Las Casas’ Cultural Turn in his; title: Interpretation of Aristotle as a Resource for Overcoming Slavery in the West; title: Indies 249; title: Martin Schermaier; title: Dominium in se ipsum in Antique and Medieval Discourses on Liberty 265; title: John Coffey; title: William Wilberforce and the Ambiguities of Christian Antislavery 297; title: Index of Names 321; title: VIII Contents; title: .