The Ancient Greek Pharmakos Rituals: A Study in Mistrust
This article examines the role of mistrust – especially in constructions of purity, impurity, and purification – in ancient Greek religion. It begins by examining so-called scapegoat or pharmakos rituals, in which an individual was expelled from the city, apparently as a purificatory offering to the...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Опубликовано: |
2022
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Numen
Год: 2022, Том: 69, Выпуск: 5/6, Страницы: 489-516 |
| Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности): | B
Греция (древность, мотив) (Древность)
/ Обряд (мотив)
/ Жертва (социальная психология) (Религия (мотив))
/ Козёл отпущения (мотив)
/ Недоверие
/ Небезопасность
/ Очистительный ритуал
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| Индексация IxTheo: | AD Социология религии AG Религиозная жизнь BE Греко-римские религии TB Античность |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
mistrust
B Impurity B Purity B spiritual insecurity B Trust B scapegoat rituals |
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| Итог: | This article examines the role of mistrust – especially in constructions of purity, impurity, and purification – in ancient Greek religion. It begins by examining so-called scapegoat or pharmakos rituals, in which an individual was expelled from the city, apparently as a purificatory offering to the gods. Recent analyses have argued that these rituals were outlets for community aggression, and/or were resonant with myths of self-sacrifice. This article will suggest a different analysis of the evidence. I offer an alternative way of interpreting these rituals that sets them in a wider context of Greek ritual and belief: it suggests that the ritual of the pharmakos arose in a context of social and spiritual insecurity. This created, I argue, a prevailing dynamic of social and spiritual mistrust, within which the pharmakos ritual emerged – and which it exacerbated. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5276 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Numen
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685276-12341662 |
