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Religious Deviance in the Roman World: Superstition or Individuality?
Jorg Rupke
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Description for Religious Deviance in the Roman World: Superstition or Individuality?
hardcover. Offers a new reading of the ancient sources in order to find indications for religious deviance practices in the Roman world. Translator(s): Richardson, David M. B. Num Pages: 159 pages. BIC Classification: HBLA1; HRAX; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
Religious individuality is not restricted to modernity. This book offers a new reading of the ancient sources in order to find indications for the spectrum of religious practices and intensified forms of such practices only occasionally denounced as 'superstition'. Authors from Cicero in the first century BC to the law codes of the fourth century AD share the assumption that authentic and binding communication between individuals and gods is possible and widespread, even if problematic in the case of divination or the confrontation with images of the divine. A change in practices and assumptions throughout the imperial period becomes visible. ... Read more
Religious individuality is not restricted to modernity. This book offers a new reading of the ancient sources in order to find indications for the spectrum of religious practices and intensified forms of such practices only occasionally denounced as 'superstition'. Authors from Cicero in the first century BC to the law codes of the fourth century AD share the assumption that authentic and binding communication between individuals and gods is possible and widespread, even if problematic in the case of divination or the confrontation with images of the divine. A change in practices and assumptions throughout the imperial period becomes visible. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
159
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107090521
SKU
V9781107090521
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Ref
99-26
About Jorg Rupke
Joerg Rupke was Chair of Comparative Religion at the University of Erfurt from 1999 to 2015, and is now permanent Fellow for Religious Studies at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies. He is also co-director of the Research Group 'Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective' and director of the ERC research project 'Lived Ancient Religion'. Since 2012, ... Read more
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