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Belief and Cult : : Rethinking Roman Religion / / Jacob L. Mackey.

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A groundbreaking reinterpretation that draws on cognitive theory to show that belief wasn’t absent from—but rather was at the heart of—Roman religionBelief and Cult argues that belief isn’t uniquely Christian but was central to ancient Roman religion. Drawing on cognitive theory, Jacob Mackey shows...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
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Mackey, Jacob L.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (496 p.) :; 11 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Brief contents
  • Detailed Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: roman religion, from intuitions to institutions
  • Part I Theoretical Foundations
  • 1 Losing Belief
  • 2 Recovering Belief
  • 3 Belief and Emotion, Belief and Action
  • 4 Shared Belief, Shared Agency, Social Norms
  • 5 Shared Belief, Social Ontology, Power
  • Part II Case Studies
  • 6 Belief and Cult: Lucretius’s Roman Theory
  • 7 Ad incunabula. Children’s cult as cognitive apprenticeship
  • 8 The “Folk Theology” of Roman Prayer: Content, context, and commitment
  • 9 Inauguratio: belief, ritual, and religious power
  • Epilog: Comparison, Explanation, and Belief
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index Locorum
  • General Index
  • A note on the type

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