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Causes and Consequences of Monotheism in the Supply of Religion

In: Advances in the Economics of Religion

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  • Murat Iyigun

    (University of Colorado Boulder)

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Human history is a testament to the strong complementarities between political and religious authority in conferring upon sovereignties the legitimacy to sustain, expand, and prolong their political rule. From Charles V, who was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Clement VII in Bologna as the last emperor to receive a papal coronation, to Yavuz Sultan Selim, who conquered Mecca in 1517 to enshrine the Ottoman Sultanate with the title of Sunni Caliph, all the way to contemporary nation-states such as Iran and Saudi Arabia that are ruled by sharia law, we have countless historical examples of ecclesiastical and secular political authority being combined to bolster the sovereign legitimacy necessary for social and political order.

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  • Murat Iyigun, 2019. "Causes and Consequences of Monotheism in the Supply of Religion," International Economic Association Series, in: Jean-Paul Carvalho & Sriya Iyer & Jared Rubin (ed.), Advances in the Economics of Religion, chapter 0, pages 423-436, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-3-319-98848-1_26
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-98848-1_26
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