ISBN:
978-0-19-967450-3 (hardback)
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 549 p. ;
,
23 cm.
Year of publication:
2013
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction. Individualization and individuation as concepts for historical research / Jörg Rüpke -- Historical change. The religious life in Hellenistic Phoenicia : 'middle ground' and new agencies / Corinne Bonnet -- Disguising change in the first century / John A. North -- Subjects, gods, and empire, or monarchism as a theological problem / Clifford Ando -- Individual and society. Individual and common cult : epigraphic reflections / Fritz Graf -- Ritual and the individual in Roman religion / Greg Woolf -- Experiences and choices. The religious anthropology of late-antique 'high' magical practice / Richard Gordon -- Individualization and the cult of the martyrs : examples from Asia Minor in the fourth century / Johan Leemans -- Conceptualizing religious experience. Dimensions of individuality in ancient mystery cults : religious practice and philosophical discourse / Katharina Waldner -- Individualization and religious rhetoric in imperial Anatolia / Nicole Belayche -- Agency. Mark's gospel and the pre-history of individuation / Ian H. Henderson -- The individual and the word in Hellenistic Judaism : cases in Philo and Josephus / Tessa Rajak -- Fighting for differences : forms and limits of religious individuality in the 'Shepherd of Hermas' / Jörg Rüpke -- Willing to die for God : individualization and instrumental agency in ancient Christian martyr literature / Karen L. King -- Master and disciple. Religio mentis : the Hermetic process of individualization / Giulia Sfameni Gasparro -- The discourse of revelation as source for the gnostic process of individuation / Giovanni Filoramo -- Beyond the empirical individual. Cicero and Seneca on the fate of the soul : private feelings and philosophical doctrines / Aldo Setaioli -- 'Humanity was created as an individual' : synechdocal individuality in the Mishnah as a Jewish response to Romanization / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert.
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