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(0)Richard Gordon
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
The last decade has seen a surge of scholarly interest in these religious professionals and a good number of high quality publications. Our volume, however, with its unique intercultural character and its explicit focus on appropriation and contestation of religious expertise in the Imperial Era is substantially different. Unlike the rather narrow focus of earlier studies of civic priests, the papers presented here examine a wider range of religious...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Dieser Band bietet einen Einblick in die Arbeit der Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe "Religiöse Individualisierung in historischer Perspektive", erschließt bibliographisch ihre Ergebnisse und fasst sie zusammen: Individualisierung ist keine Folge der Modernisierung. Religion ist Motor, nicht Gegenspieler von Individualisierung. Religiöse Individualisierung ist außerhalb des "Westens" und vor verschiedenen "Modernen" ebenso zu finden wie in ihnen.
This...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
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...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Divine Names are a key component in the communication between humans and gods in Antiquity. Their complexity derives not only from the impressive number of onomastic elements available to describe and target specific divine powers, but also from their capacity to be combined within distinctive configurations of gods. The volume collects 36 essays pertaining to many different contexts - Egypt, Anatolia, Levant, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome - which address...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
This volume brings together key findings of the long-term research project 'Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective' (Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt University). Combining a wide range of disciplinary approaches, methods and theories, the volume assembles over 50 contributions that explore and compare processes of religious individualisation in different religious environments and historical periods,...