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Studies in Ideology & Practice
One of the world's leading specialists in Indo-European religion and society, Bruce Lincoln expresses in these essays his severe doubts about the exis...
Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification
Without overlooking the role of coercive force in the maintenance (or overthrow) of social structures, Lincoln argues his thesis with rich illustratio...
A Great Scholar's Hidden Past and His Protégé's Unsolved Murder
The tale of a legendary scholar, an unsolved murder, and the mysterious documents that may connect them In early 1991, Ioan Culianu was on the precipi...
Thinking About Religion After September 11
It is tempting to regard the perpetrators of the September 11th terrorist attacks as evil incarnate. But their motives, as Bruce Lincoln’s acclaimed...
Studies in Ideology and Practice
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Critical Explorations in the History of Religions
Bruce Lincoln is one of the most prominent advocates within religious studies for an uncompromisingly critical approach to the phenomenon of religion�...
Construction and Corrosion
What is authority? How is it constituted? How ought one understand the subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) relations between authority and coercion? ...
Stories of Harald Fairhair and the Founding of the State
Medieval accounts of how Norway was unified by its first king provide a lively, revealing, and wonderfully entertaining example of this process. Takin...
Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship
In Theorizing Myth, Bruce Lincoln traces the way scholars and others have used the category of "myth" to fetishize or deride certain kinds of stories,...
Explorations In, On, and With Comparison
Comparison is an indispensable intellectual operation that plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Yet comparison often leads us to forego...
A History of the Russian Civil War
A chronicle of the Russian Civil War, from 1918 to 1921....
In this edition of his seminal theoretical work on myth, ritual, and classification, Bruce Lincoln explores the ways in which these narratives and pra...
Siberia and the Russians
"In The Conquest of a Continent, the historian W. Bruce Lincoln details Siberia's role in Russian history, one remarkably similar to that of the front...
A History Of The Russian Civil War, 1918-1921
Shortly after withdrawing from World War I, Russia descended into a bitter civil war unprecedented for its savagery: epidemics, battles, mass executio...
The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib
How does religion stimulate and feed imperial ambitions and violence? Recently this question has acquired new urgency, and in Religion, Empire, and To...
Autocrats of All the Russians
For three centuries--beginning with the accession of Mikhail Feodorovich Romanov in 1613--the Romanov Dynasty ruled Russia. Its reign ended with the e...
A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective
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 monst...
The Russians Before the Great War
The shadow of war that settled upon Russia's western frontier in 1914 darkened one of the most turbulent and exciting eras in Russian history. In War'...
Autocracy, Bureaucracy, and the Politics of Change in Imperial Russia
The Great Reforms of the 1860s marked the broadest attempt at social and economic renovation to occur in Russia between the death of Peter the Great i...
Studies in Rituals of Women's Initiation
The Indiana U. Press edition (1978) is cited in BCL3 . A scholarly biography that provides a view of Russian autocracy. Annotation copyright Book News...
Indo-European Themes of Creation and Destruction
The Russians in War and Revolution, 1914-1918
Invaded by foreign armies and threatened by the terrors of civil strife, Russia's leaders mobilized more than fifteen million fighting men between 191...
Collected Essays
In Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran, Bruce Lincoln offers a vast overview on different aspects of the Indo-Iranian, Zoroastrian and...
Autocrats of All the Russias
A Study in the Ecology of Religions
"Do cultures which have similar socio-economic and ecological bases also have similar religious systems? This is the basic issue raised in this book. ...
Russia's Enlightened Bureaucrats, 1825-1861
The first decade of Alexander II's reign is known in Russian history as the Era of the Great Reforms, a time recognized as the major period of social,...
"In May 1991, having received threats that terrified him, Ioan Petru Culianu (1950-91) entrusted a set of papers to a colleague a week before his kill...
The Life of a Russian Geographer
Rituals of Women's Initiation
Now reissued in an expanded edition, this unique book offers the first full-length treatment of women's initiation rites in five cultures. Considering...
Achaemenian Religion and the Imperial Project
The product of twenty years' research, this is the first book to study the way religious concerns permeated Achaemenian culture, deeply influencing su...