Devotion and Artifice : : Themes of Suspension in the History of Religions / / Peter Jackson Rova.
How have humans sought to prevent viable assumptions about themselves and their world from being in force, how does this propensity manifest itself, and in what terms has it been theorized and criticized throughout the ages? Through a diversity of discrete case-studies spanning a vast time-scale (in...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Religion and Reason : Theory in the Study of Religion ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XI, 205 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on Transliteration and Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Theoretical Preliminaries
- I Pre-Ancient Themes (Reservoir)
- 2 Hyperboles of Identity and Difference
- 3 Fame and Social Eating
- 4 Itinerancy and Afterlife
- II Ancient Themes (Confluence)
- Resumé and Preamble
- 5 The Stargazer’s Sacrifice
- 6 Apparitions and Apparatuses
- 7 Antinomies of the Cross
- III Nascent Modernity (Reflux)
- Preamble
- 8 The Return of the Pagans
- 9 Postscript: Survivals of Religion in the Western Imaginary
- Bibliography
- Index