Religions of the Ancient World : : A Guide /

Religions of the Ancient World : : A Guide / / ed. by Sarah Iles Johnston.

Religious beliefs and practices, which permeated all aspects of life in antiquity, traveled well-worn routes throughout the Mediterranean: itinerant charismatic practitioners journeying from place to place peddled their skills as healers, purifiers, cursers, and initiators; and vessels decorated wit...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Assmann, Jan,
Attridge, Harold W.,
Attridge, Harold,
Beard, Mary,
Beaulieu, Paul-Alain,
Bremmer, Jan,
Cazanove, Olivier de,
Collins, John J,
Collins, John J.,
Frankfurter, David,
Graf, Fritz,
Johnston, Sarah Iles,
Lincoln, Bruce,
Malandra, William,
Marinatos, Nanno,
Mikalson, Jon,
North, John,
Otto, Eckart,
Scheid, John,
Stausberg, Michael,
Wright, David P,
Wright, David P.,
HerausgeberIn:
Johnston, Sarah Iles,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:Harvard University Press Reference Library
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Physical Description:1 online resource (736 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Note on Translation and Transliteration
  • Abbreviations
  • Maps
  • Encountering Ancient Religions
  • What Is Ancient Mediterranean Religion?
  • Monotheism and Polytheism
  • Ritual
  • Myth
  • Cosmology: Time and History
  • Pollution, Sin, Atonement, Salvation
  • Law and Ethics
  • Mysteries
  • Religions in Contact
  • Writing and Religion
  • Magic
  • Histories
  • Egypt
  • Mesopotamia
  • Syria and Canaan
  • Israel
  • Anatolia: Hittites
  • Iran
  • Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations
  • Greece
  • Etruria
  • Rome
  • Early Christianity
  • Key Topics
  • Sacred Times and Spaces
  • Religious Personnel
  • Religious Organizations and Bodies
  • Sacrifice, Offerings, and Votives
  • Prayers, Hymns, Incantations, and Curses
  • Divination and Prophecy
  • Deities and Demons
  • Religious Practices of the Individual and Family
  • Rites of Passage
  • Illnesses and Other Crises
  • Death, the Afterlife, and Other Last Things
  • Sin, Pollution, and Purity
  • Ethics and Law Codes
  • Theology, Theodicy, Philosophy
  • Religion and Politics
  • Controlling Religion
  • Myth and Sacred Narratives
  • Visual Representations
  • Sacred Texts and Canonicity
  • Esotericism and Mysticism
  • Epilogue
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Index

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