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work_dxzz7jkpevhulatcva3viuk3l4	Julia McClure	Religious Exemption and Global History before 1300 – Closing Comments	2017	6	.pdf	application/pdf	2786	176	52	This collection of essays offers important insights directly relevant to this debate, highlighting the similarities of the histories of institutions across pre-modern Eurasia, questioning the cultural boundedness of the categories we use to understand the distribution of power styled as a response to the model of pre-modern Eurasian history proposed by Victor Lieberman, that of Strange Parallels.10 While Lieberman contended that the long-term developments across Eurasia were driven by state formation,11 the essays in this collection focus on Kanad Sinha's contribution (Chapter 3) highlights not only the importance of integrating studies of South East Asia into Eurasian histories, but of challenging all binaries. Lieberman's model of parallels stretching across Eurasia has of course been heavily contested, especially by early modern histories who advocate connectivity. (Chapter 9) provide some support for Lieberman's materialistic thesis, the other contributors to this volume focus on the importance of religion and suggest a more complex relationship between the material and spiritual worlds.	./cache/work_dxzz7jkpevhulatcva3viuk3l4.pdf	./txt/work_dxzz7jkpevhulatcva3viuk3l4.txt