Religion And Politics In The Graeco Roman World
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Author |
: Charlotte Dunn |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 329 |
Release |
: 2019-06-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781527535404 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1527535401 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Political Religions in the Greco-Roman World by : Charlotte Dunn
Until the 1980s, historical treatments of ancient religion focused mainly on myth, cult and ritual as a way to interpret the mental structures or primary emotions of ancient peoples, but, in the last few decades, a “political turn” in the study of religion has taken hold. This volume serves to diversify our understanding of the political conceptualizations and implementations of religious practice in the ancient Mediterranean region from the 7th Century BCE to the 4th Century CE, in both Greek and Roman contexts. The underlying question taken up here is: in what situations was Greco-Roman religious practice articulated, communicated, and perceived in political contexts, both real and imagined? Written by experts in the fields of archaeology, linguistics, art history, historiography, political science and religion, the chapters of this volume engage the plurality and the diversity of the Greco-Roman religious experience as it receives and negotiates power relations.
Author |
: Edward Dąbrowa |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 8323338574 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9788323338574 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religion and Politics in the Greco-Roman World by : Edward Dąbrowa
Papers published in this volume are dealing with different aspects of relations between politics and religion in the Mediterranean world in period from IV c. B.C. to III c. A.D. In individual papers are discussed and interpreted various examples of interference of politics, philosophy, and religion. Four papers are focused on Greece and the Hellenistic world, seven on republican and imperial Rome. Papers are published in English (6), German (3) and Italian.
Author |
: Filip Doroszewski |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2021-05-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000392418 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000392414 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dionysus and Politics by : Filip Doroszewski
This volume presents an essential but underestimated role that Dionysus played in Greek and Roman political thought. Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, the volume covers the period from archaic Greece to the late Roman Empire. The reader can observe how ideas and political themes rooted in Greek classical thought were continued, adapted and developed over the course of history. The authors (including four leading experts in the field: Cornelia Isler-Kerényi, Jean-Marie Pailler, Richard Seaford andRichard Stoneman) reconstruct the political significance of Dionysus by examining different types of evidence: historiography, poetry, coins, epigraphy, art and philosophy. They discuss the place of the god in Greek city-state politics, explore the long tradition of imitating Dionysus that ancient leaders, from Alexander the Great to the Roman emperors, manifested in various ways, and shows how the political role of Dionysus was reflected in Orphism and Neoplatonist philosophy. Dionysus and Politics provides an excellent introduction to a fundamental feature of ancient political thought which until now has been largely neglected by mainstream academia. The book will be an invaluable resource to students and scholars interested in ancient politics and religion.
Author |
: Nathaniel P. DesRosiers |
Publisher |
: SBL Press |
Total Pages |
: 346 |
Release |
: 2016-08-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780884141570 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0884141578 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religious Competition in the Greco-Roman World by : Nathaniel P. DesRosiers
Essays that broaden the historical scope and sharpen the parameters of competitive discourses Scholars in the fields of late antique Christianity, neoplatonism, New Testament, art history, and rabbinics examine issues related to authority, identity, and change in religious and philosophical traditions of late antiquity. The specific focus of the volume is the examination of cultural producers and their particular viewpoints and agendas in an attempt to shed new light on the religious thinkers, texts, and material remains of late antiquity. The essays explore the major creative movements of the era, examining the strategies used to develop and designate orthodoxies and orthopraxies. This collection of essays reinterprets dialogues between individuals and groups, illuminating the mutual competition and influence among these ancient thinkers and communities. Features: Essays feature competitive discourse as the central organizing theme Articles present unique theoretical models that are adaptable to different contexts and highly applicable to religious discourses before and after the Late Antique Period Scholars cover a much wider range of traditions including Judaism, Christianity, paganism, and philosophy in order to provide the most complete portrait of the religious landscape
Author |
: Panayotis Pachis |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 396 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9602671408 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789602671405 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religion and Politics in the Graeco-roman World by : Panayotis Pachis
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1403498780 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Culture, religion, and politics in the greco-roman world by :
Author |
: Dick Geary |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 335 |
Release |
: 2012-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781443838092 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1443838098 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Slaves and Religions in Graeco-Roman Antiquity and Modern Brazil by : Dick Geary
Slaves have never been mere passive victims of slavery. Typically, they have responded with ingenuity to their violent separation from their native societies, using a variety of strategies to create new social networks and cultures. Religion has been a major arena for such slave cultural strategies. Through participation in religious and ritual activities, slaves have generated important elements of identity, shared humanity, and even resistance, within their lives. This volume presents papers from a conference of the University of Nottingham’s Institute for the Study of Slavery – the only UK centre studying its history from antiquity to the present. It breaks new ground by juxtaposing slave strategies within the diverse religious cultures of Graeco-Roman antiquity and modern Brazil. After a wide-ranging historiographical survey, eleven experts examine how in both societies slave religious activities involved both constraints and opportunities, shedding particular new light on the neglected religious strategies of Graeco-Roman slaves.
Author |
: Moyer V. Hubbard |
Publisher |
: Baker Academic |
Total Pages |
: 381 |
Release |
: 2010-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781441237095 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1441237097 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Christianity in the Greco-Roman World by : Moyer V. Hubbard
Background becomes foreground in Moyer Hubbard's creative introduction to the social and historical setting for the letters of the Apostle Paul to churches in Asia Minor and Europe. Hubbard begins each major section with a brief narrative featuring a fictional character in one of the great cities of that era. Then he elaborates on various aspects of the cultural setting related to each particular vignette, discussing the implications of those venues for understanding Paul's letters and applying their message to our lives today. Addressing a wide array of cultural and traditional issues, Hubbard discusses: • religion and superstition • education, philosophy, and oratory • urban society • households and family life in the Greco-Roman world This work is based on the premise that the better one understands the historical and social context in which the New Testament (and Paul's letters) was written, the better one will understand the writings of the New Testament themselves. Passages become clearer, metaphors deciphered, and images sharpened. Teachers, students, and laypeople alike will appreciate Hubbard's unique, illuminating, and well-researched approach to the world of the early church.
Author |
: Dan Cohn-Sherbok |
Publisher |
: Burns & Oates |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105110285983 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religious Diversity in the Graeco-Roman World by : Dan Cohn-Sherbok
This pioneering study by leading scholars in the field surveys a century of scholarship and seeks to untangle the complexities of religious interactions and conflict in the first century CE. Over the last hundred years there has been a great deal of interest in the nature of religious diversity in the Graeco-Roman world. A wide variety of scholars have attempted to untangle the complexities of religious interaction and conflict that characterized it in every phase. Students of this period now have a convenient and authoritative introduction to recent work in this vast field of scholarship. The volume comprises Philip Esler on Palestinian Judaism in the First Century, John Barclay on Diaspora Judaism, Charlotte hmpel on the Essenes, Donald Hagner on 'Historical Jesus' studies, James Dunn on Paul, Thomas O'Loughlin on The Early Church, Graham Anderson on Greek religione, Robin Mc.L.Wilson on Gnosticism and John Court on Mithraism.
Author |
: Richard M. Rothaus |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 183 |
Release |
: 2015-08-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004301498 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004301496 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Corinth: The First City of Greece by : Richard M. Rothaus
This book addresses cult and religion in the city of Corinth from the 4th to 7th centuries of our era. The work incorporates and synthesizes all available evidence, literary, archaeological and other. The interaction and conflict between Christian and non-Christian activity is placed into its urban context and seen as simultaneously existing and overlapping cultural activity. Late antique religion is defined as cult-based rather than doctrinally-based, and thus this volume focuses not on what people believed, but rather what they did. An emphasis on cult activity reveals a variety of types of interaction between groups, ranging from confrontational events at dilapidated polytheist cult sites, to full polysemous and shared cult activity at the so-called "Fountain of the Lamps". Non-Christian traditions are shown to have been recognized and viable through the sixth century. The tentative conclusion is drawn that a clear definition of "pagan" and "Christian" begins at an urban level with the Christian re-monumentalization of Corinth with basilicas. The disappearance of "pagan" cult is best attributed to the development of a new city socially and physically based in Christianity, rather than any purely "religious" development.