Inventing Superstition
From the Hippocratics to the Christians
Published on 1. July 2009
320 pages
978-0-674-04069-4 (ISBN)
Description
Martin provides the first 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.
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Digital original
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English
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Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-04069-4 (9780674040694)
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03/2007
Harvard University Press
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Dale B. Martin is Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University.
Content
Contents Preface 1 Superstitious Christians 2 Problems of Definition 3 Inventing Deisidaimonia: Theophrastus, ReligiousEtiquette, and Theological Optimism 4 Dealing with Disease: The Hippocratics and theDivine 5 Solidifying a New Sensibility: Plato and Aristotleon the Optimal Universe 6 Diodorus Siculus and the Failure of Philosophy 7 Cracks in the Philosophical System: Plutarch andthe Philosophy of Demons 8 Galen on the Necessity of Nature and theTheology 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: Philosophical Daimons inLate Antiquity 13 Turning the Tables: Eusebius, the "Triumph" ofChristianity, and the Superstition of the Greeks Conclusion: The Rise and Fall of a GrandOptimal Illusion Notes Works Cited Index
