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  • OLD THIESS, A LIVONIAN WEREWOLF
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    OLD THIESS, A LIVONIAN WEREWOLF
    CARLO GINZBURG / BRUCE LINCOLN
    In 1691, a Livonian peasant known as Old Thiess boldly announced before a district court that he was a werewolf. Yet far from being a diabolical monster, he insisted, he was one of the “hounds of God,” fierce guardians who battled sorcerers, witches, and even Satan to protect the fields, flocks, and humanity—a baffling claim that attracted the notice of the judges then and stil...

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  • AUTHORITY
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    AUTHORITY
    BRUCE LINCOLN
    What is authority? How is it constituted? How ought one understand the subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) relations between authority and coercion? Between authorized and subversive speech? In this fascinating and intricate analysis, Bruce Lincoln argues that authority is not an entity but an effect. More precisely, it is an effect that depends for its power on the combinatio...

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  • APPLES AND ORANGES
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    APPLES AND ORANGES
    BRUCE LINCOLN
    Comparison is an indispensable intellectual operation that plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Yet comparison often leads us to forego attention to nuance, detail, and context, perhaps leaving us bereft of an ethical obligation to take things correspondingly as they are. Examining the practice of comparison across the study of history, language, religion, and cu...

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  • GODS AND DEMONS, PRIESTS AND SCHOLARS
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    GODS AND DEMONS, PRIESTS AND SCHOLARS
    BRUCE LINCOLN
    Bruce Lincoln is one of the most prominent advocates within religious studies for an uncompromisingly critical approach to the phenomenon of religion—historians of religions, he believes, should resist the preferred narratives and self-understanding of religions themselves, especially when their stories are endowed with sacred origins and authority. In Gods and Demons, Priests ...

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  • BETWEEN HISTORY AND MYTH
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    BETWEEN HISTORY AND MYTH
    BRUCE LINCOLN
    All groups tell stories about their beginnings. Such tales are oft-repeated, finely wrought, and usually much beloved. Among those institutions most in need of an impressive creation account is the state: it’s one of the primary ways states attempt to legitimate themselves. But such founding narratives invite revisionist retellings that modify details of the story in ways that ...

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  • HOLY TERRORS, SECOND EDITION
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    HOLY TERRORS, SECOND EDITION
    BRUCE LINCOLN
    It is tempting to regard the perpetrators of the September 11th terrorist attacks as evil incarnate. But their motives, as Bruce Lincoln’s acclaimed Holy Terrors makes clear, were profoundly and intensely religious. Thus what we need after the events of 9/11, Lincoln argues, is greater clarity about what we take religion to be.  Holy Terrors begins with a gripping dissection of...

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  • RELIGION, EMPIRE, AND TORTURE
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    RELIGION, EMPIRE, AND TORTURE
    BRUCE LINCOLN
    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 Persia. Lincoln identifies three core components of an imperial theology that have transhistorical and contemporary relevance: dualisti...

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