The foreign encounter in myth and religion (Record no. 219678)
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| fixed length control field | 02058nam a2200385 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 327 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Pijl, Kees van der. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The foreign encounter in myth and religion |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | London ; |
| -- | New York : |
| Name of publisher | Pluto Press ; |
| Place of publication | New York : |
| Name of publisher | Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, |
| Year of publication | 2010. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xv, 243 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Modes of foreign relations and political economy ; |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Tribal foreign relations and mythical ancestry -- Sedentary-nomad encounters in Semitic myth and religion -- Warrior heroes in the Indo-European lineage -- Imperial cosmologies and the nomad counterpoint -- Rival fundamentalisms on the imperial frontier. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The author traces the key characteristics of 'foreign encounters' over time, showing that myth, religion and ethical philosophies have always informed the way that societies have interacted with outsiders. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | International relations. |
| Topical Term | International relations |
| Topical Term | Religion and international relations. |
| Topical Term | International relations |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10479752 |
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