RT Article
T1 The Manageable Self in the Early Hellenistic Era
JF Bulletin for the study of religion
VO 39
IS 2
SP 34
OP 36
A1 Touna, Vaia
LA English
PB Equinox
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1837431574
AB This paper argues that the rise of what is commonly termed "personal religion" during the Classic-Hellenistic period is not the result of an inner need or even quality of the self, as often argued by those who see in ancient Greece foreshadowing of Christianity, but rather was the result of social, economic, and political conditions that made it possible for Hellenistic Greeks to redefine the perception of the individual and its relationship to others.
K1 Personal Religiosity
K1 Private/Public
DO 10.1558/bsor.v39i2.009