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.
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Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian Texts and Practices
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9783110286786
Publisert
2015
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
De Gruyter
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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