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The gods, the state, and the individual : reflections on civic religion in Rome /

Roman religious practice 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scheid, John (Autor)
Otros Autores: Ando, Clifford, 1969- (Traductor, writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Colección:Empire and after.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The critique of polis-religion: An inventory
  • Polis and republic: The price of misunderstanding
  • The individual in the city
  • Civic religion: A discourse of the elite?
  • Civic religion and identity
  • For whom were the rituals celebrated?
  • Religious repression
  • Civic religion, a modality of communal religion
  • Emotion and belief
  • Why did Romn religion change?
  • The gods, the state, and the individual.