| Reflections on Religious Individuality: Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian Texts and Practices Contributor(s): Rüpke, Jörg (Editor), Spickermann, Wolfgang (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3110487977 ISBN-13: 9783110487978 Publisher: de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - New Testament - Religion | Christianity - History - Religion | Comparative Religion |
| Dewey: 200.9 |
| Series: Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche Und Vorarbeiten |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9" (0.75 lbs) 274 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rupke, Jorg: - Jörg Rüpke and Wolfgang Spickermann, Max Weber Center, University of Erfurt, Germany. |