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Author: Sarah Iles Johnston
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2004-11-30
Total Pages: 750
ISBN-13: 9780674015173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Jitse H. F. Dijkstra
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 1108494900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comparative examination and interpretation of religious violence in the Graeco-Roman world and Late Antiquity.
Author: Beate Dignas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-03-15
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 0199572062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBook celebrates the work of Simon Price.
Author: Michele Renee Salzman
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 589
ISBN-13: 9781107019997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Publisher: Binker North
Published: 1906
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Religion of Ancient Egypt is a classic religious studies text by the great pioneering English egyptologist, W. M. Flinders Petrie. Before dealing with the special varieties of the Egyptians' belief in gods, it is best to try to avoid a misunderstanding of their whole conception of the supernatural. The term god has come to tacitly imply to our minds such a highly specialised group of attributes, that we can hardly throw our ideas back into the more remote conceptions to which we also attach the same name.
Author: Geoffrey Parrinder
Publisher: Checkmark Books
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780816012893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at the history and beliefs of ancient and modern religions, including Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Author: Paul Mirecki
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-08-24
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9004283811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains a series of provocative essays that explore expressions of magic and ritual power in the ancient world. The essays are authored by leading scholars in the fields of Egyptology, ancient Near Eastern studies, the Hebrew Bible, Judaica, classical Greek and Roman studies, early Christianity and patristics, and Coptology. Throughout the book the essays examine the terms employed in descriptions of ancient magic. From this examination comes a clarification of magic as a polemical term of exclusion but also an understanding of the classical Egyptian and early Greek conceptions of magic as a more neutral category of inclusion. This book should prove to be foundational for future scholarly studies of ancient magic and ritual power. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.
Author: Valentino Gasparini
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-04-06
Total Pages: 647
ISBN-13: 3110557940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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”.
Author: Sarah Iles JOHNSTON
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0674039181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligious beliefs and practices, which permeated all aspects of life in antiquity, traveled well-worn routes throughout the Mediterranean: itinerant charismatic practitioners peddled their skills as healers, purifiers, cursers, and initiators; and vessels decorated with illustrations of myths traveled with them. This collection of essays, drawn from the groundbreaking reference work Religion in the Ancient World, offers an expansive, comparative perspective on this complex spiritual world.
Author: S. R. F. Price
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-06-28
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780521388672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1999 book is about the religious life of the Greeks from the eighth century BC to the fifth century AD, looked at in the context of a variety of different cities and periods. Simon Price does not describe some abstract and self-contained system of religion or myths but examines local practices and ideas in the light of general Greek ideas, relating them for example, to gender roles and to cultural and political life (including Attic tragedy and the trial of Socrates). He also lays emphasis on the reactions to Greek religions of ancient thinkers - Greek, Roman, Jewish and Christian. The evidence drawn on is of all kinds: literary texts, which are translated throughout; inscriptions, including an appendix of newly translated Greek inscriptions; and archaeology, which is highlighted in the numerous illustrations.
