Religion in the Mirror of the Other: The Discursive Value of Cult-Atrocity Stories in Mediterranean Antiquity

Cultures in the Roman Mediterranean world, including Christianity, conceptualized their most valuable and potent ceremonial elements not only through the occasionally learned abstraction or larger social categories but by imagining their perversion by others: sometimes witches or savages; sometimes...

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Main Author: Frankfurter, David 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Chicago Press 2021
In: History of religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 60, Issue: 3, Pages: 188-208
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Roman Empire / Religion / Fremdgruppe / Church / Cult / Narrative (Social sciences)
IxTheo Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
AX Inter-religious relations
BE Greco-Roman religions
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
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Summary:Cultures in the Roman Mediterranean world, including Christianity, conceptualized their most valuable and potent ceremonial elements not only through the occasionally learned abstraction or larger social categories but by imagining their perversion by others: sometimes witches or savages; sometimes intimate, conspiratorial enemies; and sometimes evil heathens and debauched heretics. These concerns with dangerous alterity cluster around areas of culture and practice that can be generalized as religion and that point to a tentative, discursive concept of religion.
ISSN:1545-6935
Contains:Enthalten in: History of religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1086/711943