The Gods, the State, and the Individual (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
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Engelska
Antal sidor
200
Utgivningsdatum
2015-12-11
Förlag
University of Pennsylvania Press
Översättare
Clifford Ando
Medarbetare
Ando, Clifford (contributions)
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231 x 155 x 20 mm
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431 g
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1
ISBN
9780812247664

The Gods, the State, and the Individual

Reflections on Civic Religion in Rome

av John Scheid
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2015-12-11
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Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic religions. The Romans had no sacred text that espoused its creed or offered a portrait of its foundational myth. They described relations with the divine using technical terms widely employed to describe relations with other humans. Indeed, there was not even a word in classical Latin that corresponds to the English word religion. In The Gods, the State, and the Individual, John Scheid confronts these and other challenges directly. If Roman religious practice has long been dismissed as a cynical or nave system of borrowed structures unmarked by any true piety, Scheid contends that this is the result of a misplaced expectation that the basis of religion lies in an individual's personal and revelatory relationship with his or her god. He argues that when viewed in the light of secular history as opposed to Christian theology, Roman religion emerges as a legitimate phenomenon in which rituals, both public and private, enforced a sense of communal, civic, and state identity. Since the 1970s, Scheid has been one of the most influential figures reshaping scholarly understanding of ancient Roman religion. The Gods, the State, and the Individual presents a translation of Scheid's work that chronicles the development of his field-changing scholarship.
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"John Scheid has offered an excellent monograph on the civic character of Roman religion . . . [H]is erudition and ability to offer a clear and concise discussion makes the volume an indispensable source for anybody interested in Roman religion." * <i>Religious Studies Review</i> * "John Scheid's The Gods, the State, and the Individual is an impassioned intervention in a contemporary debate in the study of ancient religion." * Clifford Ando, from the foreword *

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John Scheid is Professor of Religion, Institutions, and Society in Ancient Rome at the College de France and author of An Introduction to Roman Religion. Clifford Ando is the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Humanities at the University of Chicago and Research Fellow in the Department of Biblical and Ancient Studies at the University of South Africa. He is author of Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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Translator's Foreword Preface Introduction Chapter 1. The Critique of Polis-Religion: An Inventory Chapter 2. Polis and Republic: The Price of Misunderstanding Chapter 3. The Individual in the City Chapter 4. Civic Religion: A Discourse of the Elite? Chapter 5. Civic Religion and Identity Chapter 6. For Whom Were the Rituals Celebrated? Chapter 7. Religious Repression Chapter 8. Civic Religion, a Modality of Communal Religion Chapter 9. Emotion and Belief Chapter 10. Why Did Roman Religion Change? Chapter 11. The Gods, the State, and the Individual Notes Index Acknowledgments

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