Zombies Roaming Around the Pantheon: Reconsidering Ancient Roman Belief

The present contribution explores how the field of Roman History has formalized and justified the absence of "belief"—and religious belief in particular—as part of its standard research programme. In positing an unbridgeable gap between ancient Romans and modern human beings mainly based o...

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Main Author: Ambasciano, Leonardo (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox 2022
In: Implicit religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 25, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 53-75
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Roman Empire / Faith / Religion / Historical studies / Cognition / Consciousness / Orthopraxie / Christianity
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
BE Greco-Roman religions
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy
Further subjects:B Belief
B Consciousness
B Orthopraxy
B Philosophical Zombies
B BF38-64 Philosophy
B Roman History
B Cognition
B BP50-68 History
B history of religions
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