Les Frontières du profane dans l’antiquité tardive. Edited by Éric Rebillard and Claire Sotinel
This varied collection of essays explores the boundaries of ‘the profane’ in the late antique religions of the Mediterranean. These are chiefly represented by Greek and Roman paganism and Christianity; there is also one essay on Judaism., The book begins, as it must, with a careful and thoughtful in...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 64, Issue: 2, Pages: 699-702 |
| Review of: | Les frontières du profane dans l'antiquité tardive (Rome : École Française de Rome, 2010) (Pulleyn, Simon)
Les frontières du profane dans l'antiquité tardive (Rome : École Française de Rome, 2010) (Pulleyn, Simon) |
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| Summary: | This varied collection of essays explores the boundaries of ‘the profane’ in the late antique religions of the Mediterranean. These are chiefly represented by Greek and Roman paganism and Christianity; there is also one essay on Judaism., The book begins, as it must, with a careful and thoughtful introduction by the editors aimed at defining what is meant by profane. There is a glance at Robertson Smith, Durkheim, and Eliade, who describe the profane as that which is not sacred, and vice versa (p. 1). This, of course, begs the question. The editors remark that most people can spot the sacred when they see it, so that the profane is the weak link in that particular binary opposition. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flt147 |