Gods, the State, and the Individual

Reflections on Civic Religion in Rome

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic religions. The Romans had no sacred text that espoused its creed or offered a portrait of its foundational myth. They described relations with the divine using technical terms widely employed to describe relations with other humans. Indeed, there was not even a word in classical Latin that corresponds to the English word religion.In The Gods, the State, and the Individual, John Scheid confronts these and other challenges directly. If Roman religious practice has long been dismissed as a cynical or naÏve system of borrowed structures unmarked by any true piety, Scheid contends that this is the result of a misplaced expectation that the basis of religion lies in an individual's personal and revelatory relationship with his or her god. He argues that when viewed in the light of secular history as opposed to Christian theology, Roman religion emerges as a legitimate phenomenon in which rituals, both public and private, enforced a sense of communal, civic, and state identity.Since the 1970s, Scheid has been one of the most influential figures reshaping scholarly understanding of ancient Roman religion. The Gods, the State, and the Individual presents a translation of Scheid's work that chronicles the development of his field-changing scholarship.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-12-11
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt451 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEmpire and After
Antal sidor200
FörlagUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN9780812247664
ÖversättareAndo, Clifford

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John Scheid is Professor of Religion, Institutions, and Society in Ancient Rome at the College de France and author of An Introduction to Roman Religion. Clifford Ando is the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Humanities at the University of Chicago and Research Fellow in the Department of Biblical and Ancient Studies at the University of South Africa. He is author of Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Translator's ForewordPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. The Critique of Polis-Religion: An InventoryChapter 2. Polis and Republic: The Price of MisunderstandingChapter 3. The Individual in the CityChapter 4. Civic Religion: A Discourse of the Elite?Chapter 5. Civic Religion and IdentityChapter 6. For Whom Were the Rituals Celebrated?Chapter 7. Religious RepressionChapter 8. Civic Religion, a Modality of Communal ReligionChapter 9. Emotion and BeliefChapter 10. Why Did Roman Religion Change?Chapter 11. The Gods, the State, and the IndividualNotesIndexAcknowledgments

"John Scheid has offered an excellent monograph on the civic character of Roman religion . . . [H]is erudition and ability to offer a clear and concise discussion makes the volume an indispensable source for anybody interested in Roman religion." (Religious Studies Review) "John Scheid's The Gods, the State, and the Individual is an impassioned intervention in a contemporary debate in the study of ancient religion." (Clifford Ando, from the foreword)

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