The price of monotheism

• Verfasst von: Assmann, Jan
• Titel: The price of monotheism
• Werktitel: Die Mosaische Unterscheidung oder Der Preis des Monotheismus <engl.>
• Verf.angabe: Jan Assmann. Transl. by Robert Savage
• Verlagsort: Stanford, Calif.
• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Jahr: 2010
• Umfang: VIII, 140 S.
• Format: 24 cm
• Fussnoten: "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
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-6159-8
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-6160-4
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Rezensiert in: Slavet, Eliza: A matter of distinction
• Sach-SW: Monotheism
• Sach-SW: Paganism
• Sach-SW: Religion and culture
• K10plus-PPN: 1615901655