
Reflections on Religious Individuality
Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian Texts and Practices
De Gruyter (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 20. June 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
VI, 268 pages
978-3-11-048797-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume will concentrate its search for religious individuality on texts and practices related to texts from Classical Greece to Late Antiquity. Texts offer opportunities to express one's own religious experience and shape one's own religious personality within the boundaries of what is acceptable. Inscriptions in public or at least easily accessible spaces might substantially differ in there range of expressions and topics from letters within a sectarian religious group (which, at the same time, might put enormous pressure on conformity among its members, regarded as deviant by a majority of contemporaries). Furthermore, texts might offer and advocate new practices in reading, meditating, remembering or repeating these very texts. Such practices might contribute to the development of religious individuality, experienced or expressed in factual isolation, responsibility, competition, and finally in philosophical or theological reflections about "personhood" or "self". The volume develops its topic in three sections, addressing personhood, representative and charismatic individuality, the interaction of individual and groups and practices of reading and writing. It explores Jewish, Christian, Greek and Latin texts.
Reviews / Votes
"The stimulating collection raises expectations for further contributions from the Erfurt research group."Brent Nongbri in: BMCR 2013.07.10More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Product notice
Klappenbroschur
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
414 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-11-048797-8 (9783110487978)
Schweitzer Classification
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Jörg Rüpke | Wolfgang Spickermann
Reflections on Religious Individuality
Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian Texts and Practices
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1st Edition
De Gruyter
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Jörg Rüpke | Wolfgang Spickermann
Reflections on Religious Individuality
Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian Texts and Practices
Book
06/2012
1st Edition
De Gruyter
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Persons
Jörg Rüpke and Wolfgang Spickermann, Max Weber Center, University of Erfurt, Germany.