The individual in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean / / edited by Jorg Rupke

• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (560 p.)
• Disciplina: 200.918220901
• Soggetto topico: Mythology, Greek
• Soggetto geografico: Mediterranean Region Religion; Greece Religion
• Altri autori: RüpkeJörg
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Individualization and Individuation as Concepts for Historical Research""; ""Historical Change""; ""2. The Religious Life in Hellenistic Phoenicia: â€?Middle Groundâ€? and New Agencies""; ""3. Disguising Change in the First Century""; ""4. Subjects, Gods, and Empire, or Monarchism as a Theological Problem""; ""Individual and Society""; ""5. Individual and Common Cult: Epigraphic Reflections""; ""6. Ritual and the Individual in Roman Religion""; ""Experiences and Choices"" ; ""7. The Religious Anthropology of Late-Antique â€?Highâ€? Magical Practice""""8. Individualization and the Cult of the Martyrs: Examples from Asia Minor in the Fourth Century""; ""Conceptualizing Religious Experience""; ""9. Dimensions of Individuality in Ancient Mystery Cults: Religious Practice and Philosophical Discourse""; ""10. Individualization and Religious Rhetoric in Imperial Anatolia""; ""Agency""; ""11. Markâ€?s Gospel and the Pre-History of Individuation""; ""12. The Individual and the Word in Hellenistic Judaism: Cases in Philo and Josephus"" ; ""13. Fighting for Differences: Forms and Limits of Religious Individuality in the â€?Shepherd of Hermasâ€?""""14. Willing to Die for God: Individualization and Instrumental Agency in Ancient Christian Martyr Literature""; ""Master and Disciple""; ""15. Religio mentis: The Hermetic Process of Individualization""; ""16. The Discourse of Revelation as Source for the Gnostic Process of Individuation""; ""Beyond the Empirical Individual""; ""17. Cicero and Seneca on the Fate of the Soul: Private Feelings and Philosophical Doctrines"" ; ""18. â€?Humanity was Created as an Individualâ€?: Synechdocal Individuality in the Mishnah as a Jewish Response to Romanization""""Index of Sources""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Z""; ""General Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The individual in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean
• ISBN: 0-19-175240-1; 0-19-165631-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996213890203316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno