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Author | : Sarah Iles Johnston |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 750 |
Release | : 2004-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674015173 |
This groundbreaking, first basic reference work on ancient religious beliefs collects and organizes available information on ten ancient cultures and traditions, including Greece, Rome, and Mesopotamia, and offers an expansive, comparative perspective on each one.
Author | : Beate Dignas |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2012-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199572062 |
Book celebrates the work of Simon Price.
Author | : Geoffrey Parrinder |
Publisher | : Checkmark Books |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780816012893 |
Looks at the history and beliefs of ancient and modern religions, including Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Author | : Michele Renee Salzman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 589 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781107019997 |
Author | : Jitse H. F. Dijkstra |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2020-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108494900 |
A comparative examination and interpretation of religious violence in the Graeco-Roman world and Late Antiquity.
Author | : GEORGE. RAWLINSON |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-02-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780484450959 |
Excerpt from The Religions of the Ancient World In the ensuing pages the religious tenets and practices of eight principal nations of antiquity are passed in review - the nations being those with which ancient history is chiefly concerned - the Egyptians, Assyrians and Baby lonians, Iranians, Sanskritic Indians, Phenicians, Etruscans, Greeks, and Romans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Jörg Rüpke |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2013-08-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199674507 |
Covering the Hellenistic and Imperial periods in both pagan polytheistic as well as Jewish monotheistic settings, this edited collection focuses on individuation in everyday religious practices across the ancient Mediterranean as identified in institutional developments and philosophical reflections on the self.
Author | : Catherine Nixey |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2018-04-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0544800931 |
A New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Jerwood Award from the Royal Society of Literature, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and named a Book of the Year by the Telegraph, Spectator, Observer, and BBC History Magazine, this bold new history of the rise of Christianity shows how its radical followers helped to annihilate Greek and Roman civilizations. The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and suppressed the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to "one true faith." Despite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek and mild, going to their martyrs' deaths singing hymns of love and praise, the truth, as Catherine Nixey reveals, is very different. Far from being meek and mild, they were violent, ruthless, and fundamentally intolerant. Unlike the polytheistic world, in which the addition of one new religion made no fundamental difference to the old ones, this new ideology stated not only that it was the way, the truth, and the light but that, by extension, every single other way was wrong and had to be destroyed. From the first century to the sixth, those who didn't fall into step with its beliefs were pursued in every possible way: social, legal, financial, and physical. Their altars were upturned and their temples demolished, their statues hacked to pieces, and their priests killed. It was an annihilation. Authoritative, vividly written, and utterly compelling, this is a remarkable debut from a brilliant young historian.
Author | : Hugh Bowden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
A richly illustrated history of antiquity's secret religious rituals This is the first book to describe and explain all of the ancient world's major mystery cults--one of the most intriguing but least understood aspects of Greek and Roman religion. In the nocturnal Mysteries at Eleusis, participants dramatically re-enacted the story of Demeter's loss and recovery of her daughter Persephone; in the Bacchic cult, bands of women ran wild in the Greek countryside to honor Dionysus; and in the mysteries of Mithras, men came to understand the nature of the universe and their place within it through frightening initiation ceremonies and astrological teachings. These cults were an important part of life in the ancient Mediterranean world, but their actual practices were shrouded in secrecy, and many of their features have remained unclear until now. By richly illustrating the evidence from ancient art and archaeology, and drawing on enlightening new work in the anthropology and cognitive science of religion, Mystery Cults of the Ancient World allows readers to imagine as never before what it was like to take part in these ecstatic and life-changing religious rituals--and what they meant to those who participated in them. Stunning images of Greek painted pottery, Roman frescoes, inscribed gold tablets from Greek and South Italian tombs, and excavated remains of religious sanctuaries help show what participants in these initiatory cults actually did and experienced. A fresh and accessible introduction to a fascinating subject, this is a book that will interest general readers, as well as students and scholars of classics and religion.
Author | : Valentino Gasparini |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 622 |
Release | : 2020-04-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3110557940 |
The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. This volume applies and further develops these methodological tools, new perspectives and new questions. The religious transformations of the Roman Imperial period appear in new light and more nuances by comparative confrontation and the integration of many disciplines. The contributions are written by specialists from a variety of disciplinary contexts (Jewish Studies, Theology, Classics, Early Christian Studies) dealing with the history of religion of the Mediterranean, West-Asian, and European area from the (late) Hellenistic period to the (early) Middle Ages and shaped by their intensive exchange. From the point of view of their respective fields of research, the contributors engage with discourses on agency, embodiment, appropriation and experience. They present innovative research in four fields also of theoretical debate, which are “Experiencing the Religious”, “Switching the Code”, „A Thing Called Body“ and “Commemorating the Moment”.