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Before religion : a history of a modern concept /
Examining a wide array of ancient writings, Brent Nongbri dispels the commonly held idea that there is such a thing as ancient religion. Nongbri shows how misleading it is to speak as though religion was a concept native to pre-modern cultures.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- What do we mean by "religion"?
- Lost in translation: inserting "religion" into ancient texts
- Some (premature) births of religion in antiquity
- Christians and "others" in the premodern era
- Renaissance, reformation, and religion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- New worlds, new religions, world religions
- The modern origins of ancient religions
- Conclusion: after religion?