Religious Dimensions of the Self in the Second Century CE (Paperback)

Gregory D. Woolf

ISBN 10: 3161522435 / ISBN 13: 9783161522437

Editore: Mohr Siebeck, 2013

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Paperback. Bildet das zweite Jahrhundert n. Chr. eine Zaesur fuer die Entwicklung von Vorstellungen eines "Selbst"? Wenn ja, weist dieser Prozess eine religioese Dimension auf? War er mit Veraenderungen im Bereich von Praktiken und Institutionen verbunden? Und schliesslich: Lassen sich diese Entwicklungen als je eigene Formen von religioeser Individualisierung verstehen? Diesen Fragen widmen sich die Autoren dieses Bandes, Spezialisten fuer die Philosophie, Theologie, Literatur- und Religionsgeschichte der Epoche. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Texte und Autoren wie Seneca, Plutarch, Epiktet, der "Hirte des Hermas", Lukian von Samosata, Justin Martyr und Ptolemaeus von Rom und das Corpus Hermeticum. Die Autoren des Bandes zeigen, wie sich Vorstellungen vom "Selbst" mit koerperbezogenen Praktiken von Kleidung und Haartracht wie Institutionen ethischer Reflexion und religioeser Erziehung miteinander zu wirkmaechtigen Vorstellungen verbinden. Das zweite Jahrhundert n. Chr. bildet eine wichtige Epoche fuer die Prozesse religioeser Individualisierung in der Antike. Die Autoren des Bandes zeigen, wie sich Vorstellungen vom "Selbst" mit koerperbezogenen Praktiken von Kleidung und Haartracht wie Institutionen ethischer Reflexion und religioeser Erziehung miteinander zu wirkmaechtigen Vorstellungen verbinden. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Religious Dimensions of the Self in the Second Century CE (Paperback)
• Editore: Mohr Siebeck
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3161522435
• ISBN 13: 9783161522437
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: new

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Riassunto

Did new senses of the self emerge in the High Roman Empire, and if so what were the religious corollaries? Were such changes connected to processes of institutional change? Could they usefully be described as individualisation? These are the key concerns of the authors of this volume. They address the field of Hellenistic philosophy, medical texts and the literature of the so-called Second Sophistic, which all have been recruited to this debate. Most important, however, religious phenomena are included and brought to the fore. Thus the analysis of concepts of the self in Plutarch and Epictetus is followed by studies of the Shepherd of Hermas, Clement of Alexandria and Ptolemaeus of Rome, Justin Martyr and the Corpus Hermeticum. Notions of the self are traced in concepts of body and soul, I and god(s), but also in practices like dressing and ideas about political identity. Lucian of Samosata, a central author of the Second Sophistic, is shown to be involved in such discourses and practices in a sequence of studies. It is this kind of institutional setting which turns out to have been of central importance for the development of concepts of the self in the period under consideration. Thus, in a final section, the authors address philosophical advice on dealing with sick friends, the individuality implied in votive practices, and institutions for religious educations within the field of Christian practices.

Informazioni sull'autore

Jorg Rupke, Born 1962; since 1999 Prof. for Comparative Religious Studies at the University of Erfurt; since 2008 Fellow at the Max-Weber-Kolleg and spokesman of the research group Religious individualization in a historical perspective; since 2012 Member of the science council.Gregory D. Woolf, Born 1961; 2009-10 Fellow of the Max Weber College of the University of Erfurt; Professor of Ancient History in the University of St Andrews, Scotland; currently holds a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust to investigate the origins of religious pluralism in the Roman World.