Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 142 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
English language edition.
ISBN:
9781316106792
Uniform Title:
Aberglauben oder Individualität
Content:
Religious individuality is not restricted to modernity. This book offers a new reading of the ancient sources in order to find indications for the spectrum of religious practices and intensified forms of such practices only occasionally denounced as 'superstition'. Authors from Cicero in the first century BC to the law codes of the fourth century AD share the assumption that authentic and binding communication between individuals and gods is possible and widespread, even if problematic in the case of divination or the confrontation with images of the divine. A change in practices and assumptions throughout the imperial period becomes visible. It might be characterised as 'individualisation' and informed the Roman law of religions. The basic constellation - to give freedom of religion and to regulate religion at the same time - resonates even into modern bodies of law and is important for juridical conflicts today.
Content:
Superstitio: conceptions of religious deviance in Roman antiquity -- Creation of religious norms in the late Republic -- The role of ethos and knowledge in controlling religious deviance: a Tiberian view of priestly deviance -- De Superstitione: religious experiences best not had in temples -- The normative discourse in late antiquity -- The individual in a world of competing religious norms -- Deviance and individuation: from Cicero to Theodosius
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 May 2016)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107462403
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107090521
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107090521
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107462403
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Rüpke, Jörg, 1962 - Religious deviance in the Roman world Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016 ISBN 9781107090521
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107090521
Language:
English
Keywords:
Römisches Reich
;
Religion
;
Norm
;
Individualismus
;
Asozialität
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781316106792
URL:
Volltext
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Author information:
Rüpke, Jörg 1962-
