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- Title: Luc De Heusch, Pouvoir Et Religion: Pour Recondlier L'histoire Et L'anthropologie (Book Review)
- Author : Anthropological Quarterly
- Release Date : January 22, 2011
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 188 KB
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Luc de Heusch, Pouvoir et Religion: pour recondlier l'histoire et l'anthropologie. Paris: Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 2009. 216 pp. This is Luc de Heusch's most ambitious book to date. In it he discusses sub-Saharan African kingship, for which he prefers the term "sacred kingship" instead of the more usual "divine kingship," but he also briefly considers the kingship systems of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, China, India, and South America to which he does apply the term "divine kingship." From there, he takes on the question of monotheism and its relation to the kingship systems in which it was born. Finally, the work closes with a stimulating chapter on the social contract where he contrasts the thoughts of Rousseau and Hobbes. This book, although probably not suited for most undergraduate courses, is well worth a careful read from serious scholars. Because these latter are relatively few in number, it is unlikely that this book will be translated into English any time soon, though it certainly merits it.
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