Rethinking Greek Religion
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- Author: Julia Kindt, University of Sydney
- Date Published: August 2012
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521127738
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Who marched in religious processions and why? How were blood sacrifice and communal feasting related to identities in the ancient Greek city? With questions such as these, current scholarship aims to demonstrate the ways in which religion maps on to the socio-political structures of the Greek polis ('polis religion'). In this book Dr Kindt explores a more comprehensive conception of ancient Greek religion beyond this traditional paradigm. Comparative in method and outlook, the book invites its readers to embark on an interdisciplinary journey touching upon such diverse topics as religious belief, personal religion, magic and theology. Specific examples include the transformation of tyrant property into ritual objects, the cultural practice of setting up dedications at Olympia, and a man attempting to make love to Praxiteles' famous statue of Aphrodite. The book will be valuable for all students and scholars seeking to understand the complex phenomenon of ancient Greek religion.
Read more- Proposes a broader understanding of the religious culture of ancient Greek religion
- Shows how the diverse sources available for the study of Greek religion interact with each other
- Demonstrates how methodological perspectives from neighbouring disciplines can shed new light on well-known aspects of ancient Greek religion
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'Kindt's book helps to prevent rigidities in the study of ancient religious material and to rehabilitate concepts like 'belief' or 'theology' that, once exempt from Christianising connotations, are useful to understand Greek religion. So its reading will doubtless be helpful for researchers [in] the field.' Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui, Sehepunkte
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- Date Published: August 2012
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521127738
- length: 256 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 12 mm
- weight: 0.41kg
- contains: 8 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Beyond the polis: rethinking Greek religion
2. Parmeniscus' journey: tracing religious visuality in word and wood
3. On tyrant property turned ritual object: political power and sacred symbols in ancient Greece and in social anthropology
4. Rethinking boundaries: the place of magic within the religious culture of ancient Greece
5. The 'local' and the 'panhellenic' reconsidered: Olympia, dedications and the religious culture of ancient Greece
6. 'The sex appeal of the inorganic': seeing, touching and knowing the divine during the Second Sophistic
Conclusion.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Ancient Mediterranean Religions
- Philosophy & Mysticism
- Religion in Greece & Rome
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