The Greeks and their Rituals

For the ancient Greeks, ritual was communication with the gods, aimed at achieving a communality between gods and humans, principally in the service of a community’s welfare, cohesion, and stability, and at the very least, configuring social relations between individuals. This chapter provides a bri...

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Main Author: Kowalzig, Barbara (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2020
In: The Oxford handbook of ritual and worship in the Hebrew Bible
Year: 2020, Pages: 68-89
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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