The Gods, the State, and the Individual : Reflections on Civic Religion in Rome /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scheid, John (Author)
Other Authors: Ando, Clifford, 1969- (Translator, writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Religion and state.
Religion.
Cults.
Cultes > Rome.
Religion et État > Rome.
Cults > Rome.
Religion and state > Rome.
Rome (Empire)
Rome > Religion.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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