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Rethinking Greek Religion Julia Kindt (University of Sydney)

Rethinking Greek Religion By Julia Kindt (University of Sydney)

Rethinking Greek Religion by Julia Kindt (University of Sydney)


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Explores a more comprehensive conception of ancient Greek religion beyond the traditional paradigm of 'polis religion'. Comparative in method and outlook, it discusses such diverse topics as religious belief, personal religion, magic and theology. Valuable for all students and scholars seeking to understand the complex phenomenon of ancient Greek religion.

Rethinking Greek Religion Summary

Rethinking Greek Religion by Julia Kindt (University of Sydney)

Who marched in religious processions and why? How were blood sacrifice and communal feasting related to identities in the ancient Greek city? With questions such as these, current scholarship aims to demonstrate the ways in which religion maps on to the socio-political structures of the Greek polis ('polis religion'). In this book Dr Kindt explores a more comprehensive conception of ancient Greek religion beyond this traditional paradigm. Comparative in method and outlook, the book invites its readers to embark on an interdisciplinary journey touching upon such diverse topics as religious belief, personal religion, magic and theology. Specific examples include the transformation of tyrant property into ritual objects, the cultural practice of setting up dedications at Olympia, and a man attempting to make love to Praxiteles' famous statue of Aphrodite. The book will be valuable for all students and scholars seeking to understand the complex phenomenon of ancient Greek religion.

Rethinking Greek Religion Reviews

'Kindt's book helps to prevent rigidities in the study of ancient religious material and to rehabilitate concepts like 'belief' or 'theology' that, once exempt from Christianising connotations, are useful to understand Greek religion. So its reading will doubtless be helpful for researchers [in] the field.' Miguel Herrero de Jauregui, Sehepunkte

About Julia Kindt (University of Sydney)

Julia Kindt is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. She has a doctorate in Classics from the University of Cambridge and was a Harper Schmitt Fellow, a Catherine Graham Fellow and a Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. She has published widely on ancient Greek religion, oracles and divination, and Greco-Roman historiography.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Beyond the polis: rethinking Greek religion; 2. Parmeniscus' journey: tracing religious visuality in word and wood; 3. On tyrant property turned ritual object: political power and sacred symbols in ancient Greece and in social anthropology; 4. Rethinking boundaries: the place of magic within the religious culture of ancient Greece; 5. The 'local' and the 'panhellenic' reconsidered: Olympia, dedications and the religious culture of ancient Greece; 6. 'The sex appeal of the inorganic': seeing, touching and knowing the divine during the Second Sophistic; Conclusion.

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GOR006189037
9780521127738
0521127734
Rethinking Greek Religion by Julia Kindt (University of Sydney)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2012-08-02
256
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