Reflections on religious individuality: Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian texts and practices
Did ancient religions know religious individuality? How did it work in texts and practices related to texts? The creation of texts offered opportunities to express one's own religious experience and shape one's own religious personality - within the boundaries of what is acceptable. Greek...
| Résumé: | Did ancient religions know religious individuality? How did it work in texts and practices related to texts? The creation of texts offered opportunities to express one's own religious experience and shape one's own religious personality - within the boundaries of what is acceptable. Greek and Latin, Jewish and Christian texts from the Hellenistic period down to Late Antiquity created exemplary individuals or condemned individual deviance. The volume presents exemplary cases and analyses, which open a new field for research in the history of religion, covering ritual and literary innovations Introduction; Individuals and Personhood; Kultgründungen durch Individuen im klassischen Griechenland; ' ... Hidden with Christ in God' (Colossians 3:3): Modes of Personhood in Deutero-Pauline Tradition; Representative and Charismatic Individuality; Representative Individuality in Iamblichus' De vita pythagorica; Sosipatra and the Theurgic Life: Eunapius Vitae Sophistorum 6.6.5-6.9.24; Gregory Taught, Gregory Written: The effacement and definition of individualization in the Address to Origen and the Life of Gregory the Wonderworker; The Father of Man: Abraham as the rabbinic Jesus. Reading and WritingReading Practices in Early Christianity and the Individualisation Process; Reading and Religion in Rome; „Einer jeden Gottheit ihren eigenen Kult": Verbriefte Individualreligion am Clitumnus fons (Plinius epist. 8,8); Four Letter-writers: Religion in Pliny, Trajan, Libanius, and Julian; Index. |
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| Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 3110286785 |