Reflections on Religious Individuality
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Edited by:
Jörg Rüpke
About this book
This volume will concentrate its search for religious individuality on texts and practices related to texts from Classical Greece to Late Antiquity. Texts offer opportunities to express one’s own religious experience and shape one’s own religious personality within the boundaries of what is acceptable. Inscriptions in public or at least easily accessible spaces might substantially differ in there range of expressions and topics from letters within a sectarian religious group (which, at the same time, might put enormous pressure on conformity among its members, regarded as deviant by a majority of contemporaries). Furthermore, texts might offer and advocate new practices in reading, meditating, remembering or repeating these very texts. Such practices might contribute to the development of religious individuality, experienced or expressed in factual isolation, responsibility, competition, and finally in philosophical or theological reflections about “personhood” or “self”. The volume develops its topic in three sections, addressing personhood, representative and charismatic individuality, the interaction of individual and groups and practices of reading and writing. It explores Jewish, Christian, Greek and Latin texts.
Author / Editor information
Jörg Rüpke and Wolfgang Spickermann, Max Weber Center, University of Erfurt, Germany.
Reviews
"The stimulating collection raises expectations for further contributions from the Erfurt research group."
Brent Nongbri in: BMCR 2013.07.10
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Jörg Rüpke and Wolfgang Spickermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Individuals and Personhood
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Annette Hupfloher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Ian H. Henderson and McGill University Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Representative and Charismatic Individuality
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Richard Gordon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Sarah Iles Johnston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Blossom Stefaniw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Ron Naiweld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Reading and Writing
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Guy G. Stroumsa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Greg Woolf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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