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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
2021
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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)
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| 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1545-6935 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: History of religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/711943 |