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Alan Strathern

Author of Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History

6 Works 47 Members

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Image credit: Alan Strathern [credit: University of Oxford]

Works by Alan Strathern

Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History (2019) 21 copies

Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History (2017) 16 copies

Kingship and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Sri Lanka: Portuguese Imperialism in a Buddhist Land (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications) (2007) 4 copies

Royal 'We', The: Sinhala Identity in the Dynastic State (2006) 3 copies

Converting Rulers: Global Patterns, 1450–1850 (2024) 2 copies

Sacred Kingship in World History: Between Immanence and Transcendence 1 copy

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Legal name: Strathern, Alan Leiper
Birthdate: 1975-05-08
Gender: male
Education: University of Oxford
University of London
Occupations: historian
Organizations: University of Oxford
Brasenose College, Oxford
Nationality: UK
Associated Place (for map): UK

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Works cited in The New Science of the Enchanted Universe by Marshall Sahlin (1)

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Jerry H. Bentley Book Prize

Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History (2020)

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Works: 6
Members: 47
Popularity: #330,642
Rating: ½ 4.3

ISBNs: 14

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