Inventing superstition : from the Hippocratics to the Christians / / Dale B. Martin
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| Autore: |
Martin Dale B. <1954->
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| Titolo: |
Inventing superstition : from the Hippocratics to the Christians / / Dale B. Martin
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2004 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xii, 307 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 398.410901 |
| Soggetto topico: | Philosophy, Ancient |
| Philosophy and religion - Greece | |
| Philosophy and religion - Rome | |
| Superstition - Religious aspects - History - To 1500 | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-299) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Superstitious Christians -- 2 Problems of Definition -- 3 Inventing Deisidaimonia -- 4 Dealing with Disease -- 5 Solidifying a New Sensibility -- 6 Diodorus Siculus and the Failure of Philosophy -- 7 Cracks in the Philosophical System -- 8 Galen on the Necessity of Nature and the Theology of Teleology -- 9 Roman Superstitio and Roman Power -- 10 Celsus and the Attack on Christianity -- 11 Origen and the Defense of Christianity -- 12 The Philosophers Turn -- 13 Turning the Tables -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Dale Martin provides a detailed genealogy of the idea of superstition, its history over eight centuries, from classical Greece to the Christianized Roman Empire of the fourth century C.E. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Inventing superstition |
| ISBN: | 9780674040694 |
| 0674040694 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910974604003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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