RT Article
T1 Gesund werden im Schlaf?: die antiken Schlafkulte und das Christentum
JF Theologische Literaturzeitung
VO 131
IS 12
SP 1233
OP 1244
A1 Markschies, Christoph Johannes 1962-
A2 Marschies, Christoph
LA German
PB Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
YR 2006
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/582418968
AB Hope of healing is not a specific phenomenon of modern society. In ancient Greece, scientific healing approaches, taught at schools for scientific medicine, as well as healing procedures based on religion, co-existed. Latter particularly focused on sleep - the so-called incubation -, and were practiced at temples of the healing god Asclepius. After introductory remarks on the practice of therapeutic sleep at Asclepius temples, the second part deals with the question of what happened with such sanctuaries after the Roman Empire was christianized and how Christians dealt with the healing tradition of incubation. The last part focuses on general results from the historic parts.