TY - BOOK AU - Pijl,Kees van der ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The foreign encounter in myth and religion T2 - Modes of foreign relations and political economy AV - JX1255 .P55 2010eb U1 - 327 22 PY - 2010/// CY - London, New York, New York PB - Pluto Press, Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan KW - International relations KW - History KW - Religion and international relations KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-235) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries N2 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10479752 ER -