Religion and Competition in Antiquity
- ISBN-10
- 2870312903
- ISBN-13
- 9782870312902
- Category
- Christianity and culture
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Latomus/Tournai
- Authors
- David Engels, Peter van Nuffelen
Description
The notion of competition has become crucial to our understanding of Greek and Roman religion and is often invoked to explain religous changes and to describe the relationship between various cults. This volume seeks to raise our awareness of what the notion implies and to test its use for the analysis of ancient religions. The papers range from Classical Greece, Hellenistic Babylon, Rome and the Etruscans, to Late Antiquity and the rise of Islam. They seek to determine how much can be gained in each individual case by understanding religious interaction in terms of rivalry and competition. In doing so, the volume hopes to open a more explicit debate on the analytical tools with which ancient religion is currently being studied.
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