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Author | : Walter Burkert |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0520058755 |
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"A milestone, not only in the field of classics but in the wider field of the history of religion. . . . It will find a place alongside the works of Jane Ellen Harrison, Sir James George Frazer, Claude Levi-Strauss, and van Gennep."—Wendy Flaherty, Divinity School, University of Chicago "This book is a professional classic, an absolute must for any serious student of Greek religion."—Albert Henrichs, Harvard University
Author | : Christopher A. Faraone |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2012-03-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107011124 |
Download Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first general critique of the interpretations of animal sacrifice established by Walter Burkert, the late J.-P. Vernant, and Marcel Detienne.
Author | : Christine Schnusenberg |
Publisher | : Paulist Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0809105446 |
Download The Mythological Traditions of Liturgical Drama Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This unique, comprehensive work tackles questions posed by the polemics of the Church Fathers against the Roman theater and explores the subsequent developments of Western liturgical drama as a continuation of the Roman theater up to the time of Amalarius of Metz in the ninth century.
Author | : James Alison |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 549 |
Release | : 2017-10-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1137538252 |
Download The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion draws on the expertise of leading scholars and thinkers to explore the violent origins of culture, the meaning of ritual, and the conjunction of theology and anthropology, as well as secularization, science, and terrorism. Authors assess the contributions of René Girard’s mimetic theory to our understanding of sacrifice, ancient tragedy, and post-modernity, and apply its insights to religious cinema and the global economy. This handbook serves as introduction and guide to a theory of religion and human behavior that has established itself as fertile terrain for scholarly research and intellectual reflection.
Author | : Nancy Evans |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520262026 |
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"Civic Rites clearly demonstrates the complete interdependence of religion and democracy in Athens, illustrating just how much the ancient Athenians' view of the relationship between these powerful forces differs from that in twenty-first century, Western democracies. Evans has provided a systematic, thorough, and lively treatment, liberating readers from modern expectations and offering a new window onto Athenian society."_Loren J. Samons, author of What's Wrong with Democracy? From Athenian Practice to American Worship "It is a double task the author has undertaken: to demonstrate the interdependence, nay, integration of politics and religion in the high days of 'democratic' Athens and to bring this special form of 'democracy' home to a contemporary non-specialist public. She brilliantly succeeds in both, presenting a clear and poignant narrative with graphic details. Civic Rites is a novel and fascinating course through a seemingly well-known field."_Walter Burkert, author of Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth "In equal measures intelligent, accessible, and well-informed, this book provides a contemporary introduction to classical Athenian religious practices and their manifold cultural significance. Evans interweaves overviews of political, economic, and social history with engaging descriptions of several major Attic rites. This book will interest specialists while providing students with an illuminating pathway into the familiar yet alien world of ancient Greek religion."_Deborah Boedeker, Brown University "With vivid, elegant writing and compelling imagination, Nancy Evans recreates the complex interaction of religion and politics in the ancient Athenian Democracy. Deftly interweaving chapters on cult and on political developments, she shows the general reader an Athens that is stranger to modern sensibilities than we often realize, and yet one from which we can learn many things about democratic life. A wonderful achievement."_Martha Nussbaum, author of The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
Author | : Walter Burkert |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1998-01-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780674175709 |
Download Creation of the Sacred Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Sacrifice is essential to all religions. Could there be a natural, even biological, reason? Why are sacrifice and numerous other religious rituals and concepts shared by so many different cultures? In this extraordinary book, one of the world’s leading authorities on ancient religions explores the possibility of natural religion.
Author | : Hans Dieter Betz |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2023-08-21 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 900467232X |
Download Plutarch's Theological Writings and Early Christian Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : George L. Hersey |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780262580892 |
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By analyzing this poetry - the tropes founded on the Greek terms for ornamental detail - he reconstructs a classical theory about the origin and meaning of the orders, one that links them to ancient sacrificial ritual and myth.
Author | : Walter Burkert |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2001-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226080857 |
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We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these influential essays on the history of Greek religion, there were archaic, savage forces surging beneath the outwardly calm face of classical Greece, whose potentially violent and destructive energies, Burkert argues, were harnessed to constructive ends through the interlinked uses of myth and ritual. For example, in a much-cited essay on the Athenian religious festival of the Arrephoria, Burkert uncovers deep connections between this strange nocturnal ritual, in which two virgin girls carried sacred offerings into a cave and later returned with something given to them there, and tribal puberty initiations by linking the festival with the myth of the daughters of Kekrops. Other chapters explore the origins of tragedy in blood sacrifice; the role of myth in the ritual of the new fire on Lemnos; the ties between violence, the Athenian courts, and the annual purification of the divine image; and how failed political propaganda entered the realm of myth at the time of the Persian Wars.
Author | : Brenda Deen Schildgen |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 1998-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1850758514 |
Download Crisis and Continuity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Here is a compact study of how Mark's Gospel meditates on time. It examines how the Gospel's contemporary setting in ordinary time defines its genre, and how Mark uses the Hebrew scriptures to remember and recall past teachings, prophecies and histories. The suspended time narratives, Mark's 'intercalations', on the other hand, interrupt the narrative of the critical time present. Finally, by bringing the eternal horizon into the events of the present, Mark's 'mythic time' reveals the crisis events as a momentary interruption of ordinary time. Similarly, during the 'ritual time', the Gospel narrative breaks with its own historical setting in order to unravel the dead-endedness of the crisis story by symbolically taking it outside time.