Belief in Greek and Roman Religion

Ralph Anderson is a Lecturer in Ancient History in the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews. Pramit Chaudhuri is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The War with God: Theomachy in Roman Imperial Poetry (2014), and co-founder and co-director of the Quantitative Criticism Lab, a cross-disciplinary group developing new approaches to the study of literature.

• Introduction: Questioning Belief Ralph Anderson; Part I. Terms and Concepts of Belief in the Study of Ancient Religion: 1. Belief and Praxis in Ancient and Modern Religion John Cottingham; 2. Religion, the Religions, and Propositional Beliefs Peter Harrison; 3. Towards a Psychology of Greek Religious Belief Tom Harrison; Part II. Terms and Concepts of Belief in Antiquity: 4. Belief and Practice in Xenophanes' Criticism of Traditional Religion Shaul Tor; 5. The Alliance between Faith, the Mysteries, and Philosophy in Plutarch's Moralia George van Kooten; 6. A Fragile Synthesis: Philosophy and Traditional Religion in the Post-Hellenic Period Peter Van Nuffelen; Part III. Belief and Experience in Antiquity: 7. Perception as an Alternative to Belief in Greek Religious Experience Ralph Anderson; 8. 'Omen-mindedness' in the So-Called 'Confession Inscriptions' of Asia Minor* Kim Beerden; 9. Is There an Alternative to Belief in Roman Religion? The Case of Mark Antony's Flaminate Jacob Mackey; 10. Testing the Gods: Religious Belief in Roman Imperial Epic Pramit Chaudhuri; 11. Roman Theologies in Crisis: Fluctuation and Diversity in Beliefs about Impiety* Lindsay Driediger-Murphy; Afterword: The Background of 'Belief' and the Foreground of 'Religion' Jason P. Davies. Index.