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Author : Julia Kindt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521110921
Explores 'polis religion' - a leading paradigm in current studies on ancient Greek religion - and shows ways of moving beyond it.
Author : Julia Kindt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107151574
An innovative reading of how different authors tell stories about the Delphic Oracle, focusing on the religious views thereby conveyed.
Author : Esther Eidinow,Julia Kindt
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199642038
This handbook offers both students and teachers of ancient Greek religion a comprehensive overview of the current state of scholarship in the subject, from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. It not only presents key information, but also explores the ways in which such information is gathered and the different approaches that have shaped the area. In doing so, the volume provides a crucial research and orientation tool for students of the ancient world, and also makes a vital contribution to the key debates surrounding the conceptualization of ancient Greek religion. The handbook's initial chapters lay out the key dimensions of ancient Greek religion, approaches to evidence, and the representations of myths. The following chapters discuss the continuities and differences between religious practices in different cultures, including Egypt, the Near East, the Black Sea, and Bactria and India. The range of contributions emphasizes the diversity of relationships between mortals and the supernatural - in all their manifestations, across, between, and beyond ancient Greek cultures - and draws attention to religious activities as dynamic, highlighting how they changed over time, place, and context.
Author : Julia Kindt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429754593
This book provides the first systematic study of the role of animals in different areas of the ancient Greek religious experience, including in myth and ritual, the literary and the material evidence, the real and the imaginary. An international team of renowned contributors shows that animals had a sustained presence not only in the traditionally well-researched cultural practice of blood sacrifice but across the full spectrum of ancient Greek religious beliefs and practices. Animals played a role in divination, epiphany, ritual healing, the setting up of dedications, the writing of binding spells, and the instigation of other ‘magical’ means. Taken together, the individual contributions to this book illustrate that ancient Greek religion constituted a triangular symbolic system encompassing not just gods and humans, but also animals as a third player and point of reference. Animals in Ancient Greek Religion will be of interest to students and scholars of Greek religion, Greek myth, and ancient religion more broadly, as well as for anyone interested in human/animal relations in the ancient world.
Author : Peter van Nuffelen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN : 1139189727
"Ancient philosophers had always been fascinated by religion. From the first century BC onwards the traditionally hostile attitude of Greek and Roman philosophy was abandoned in favour of the view that religion was a source of philosophical knowledge. This book studies that change, not from the usual perspective of the history of religion, but as part of the wider tendency of Post-Hellenistic philosophy to open up to external, non-philosophical sources of knowledge and authority. It situates two key themes, ancient wisdom and cosmic hierarchy, in the context of Post-Hellenistic philosophy and traces their reconfigurations in contemporary literature and in the polemic between Jews, Christians and pagans. Overall, Post-Hellenistic philosophy displayed a relatively high degree of unity in its ideas on religion, which should not be reduced to a preparation for Neoplatonism"--
Author : Simon Goldhill,Robin Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521862127
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Author : Hans Beck,Julia Kindt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009301831
Which dimensions of the religious experience of the ancient Greeks become tangible only if we foreground its local horizons? This book explores the manifold ways in which Greek religious beliefs and practices are encoded in and communicate with various local environments. Its individual chapters explore 'the local' in its different forms and formulations. Besides the polis perspective, they include numerous other places and locations above and below the polis-level as well as those fully or largely independent of the city-state. Overall, the local emerges as a relational concept that changes together with our understanding of the general or universal forces as they shape ancient Greek religion. The unity and diversity of ancient Greek religion becomes tangible in the manifold ways in which localizing and generalizing forces interact with each other at different times and in different places across the ancient Greek world.
Author : Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107038219
In a paradigm shift, this book redefines Orphism as a polemical label for extra-ordinary religion, good or bad.
Author : Tyler Jo Smith
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780812252811
"An examination of the combined subjects of ancient Greek art and religion, dealing with festivals, performance, rites of passage, and the archaeology of death, to name a few examples, to explore the visual, material, and textual dimensions of ancient Greek religion"--
Author : Sulochana Ruth Asirvatham,Corinne Ondine Pache,John Watrous
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0847699692
Between Magic and Religion represents a radical rethinking of traditional distinctions involving the term 'religion' in the ancient Greek world and beyond, through late antiquity to the seventeenth century. The title indicates the fluidity of such concepts as religion and magic, highlighting the wide variety of meanings evoked by these shifting terms from ancient to modern times. The contributors put these meanings to the test, applying a wide range of methods in exploring the many varieties of available historical, archaeological, iconographical, and literary evidence. No reader will ever think of magic and religion the same way after reading through the findings presented in this book. Both terms emerge in a new light, with broader applications and deeper meanings.
Author : Robert Jackson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religious education
ISBN : 0415302714
This text offers a critical view of approaches to the treatment of different religions in contemporary education, in order to devise approaches to teaching and learning and to formulate policies and procedures that are fair and just to all.
Author : Esther Eidinow,Julia Kindt,Robin Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107153479
This book does away once and for all with the assumption that only religions of the book think systematically about god(s).
Author : Peter van Nuffelen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 1139191012
Studies the dominant philosophical reflections on religion and the pantheon in the Post-Hellenistic period.
Author : Adam B. Seligman,Robert P. Weller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199915279
The authors argue that resorting to rules and categories cannot adequately address the pervasive problems of ambiguity, difference, and boundaries - that is to say, the challenge of pluralism in our world. They show that alternative, more particularistic modes of dealing with ambiguity through ritual and shared experience may attune more closely with contemporary problems of living with difference.
Author : Daniel Ogden
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444334173
This major addition to Blackwell’s Companions to the Ancient World series covers all aspects of religion in the ancient Greek world from the archaic, through the classical and into the Hellenistic period. Written by a panel of international experts Focuses on religious life as it was experienced by Greek men and women at different times and in different places Features major sections on local religious systems, sacred spaces and ritual, and the divine