TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bidmead,Julye
TI  - The Akītu Festival: Religious Continuity and Royal Legitimation in Mesopotamia 
T2  - Gorgias Near Eastern Studies
SN  - 9781463202651
AV  - BL1625.N4 B53 2014
U1  - 299.21 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Piscataway, NJ : 
PB  - Gorgias Press, 
KW  - Akitu
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Assyro-Babylonian religion
KW  - RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS --; INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND --; ANALYSIS OF PREVIOUS SCHOLARSHIP ON THE AKĪTU --; PHENOMONOLOGY OF THE AKĪTU FESTIVAL --; RITUALISTIC ELEMENTS OF THE AKĪTU --; POLITICAL, HISTORICAL, AND IDEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS --; CONCLUSION --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - The akītu festival is one of the oldest recorded religious festivals in the world, celebrated for several millennia throughout ancient Mesopotamia. Yet, the akītu was more than just a religious ceremony; it acted as a political device to ensure the supremacy of the king, the national god, and his capital city. Using tools of social anthropology and ritual analysis, this book presents a detailed reconstruction of the festival events and its attendant rituals to demonstrate how the festival became a propagandistic tool wielded by the monarchy and ruling classes. The akītu festival demonstrates the effectiveness of religion as a political tool
UR  - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463236007
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463236007
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ER  -