3. Appropriating Images—Embodying Gods

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Individual Appropriation of Religion 8
6. 2. Individual Decision and Social Order 26
7. 3. Appropriating Images—Embodying Gods 42
8. 4. Testing the Limits of Ritual Choices 64
9. 5. Reconstructing Religious Experience 80
10. 6. Dynamics of Individual Appropriation 97
11. 7. Religious Communication 121
12. 8. Instructing Literary Practice in The Shepherd of Hermas 139
13. Conclusion 158
14. Bibliography 161
15. General Index 189
16. Index of Passages 195