Myths, martyrs, and modernity: studies in the history of religions in honour of Jan N. Bremmer

Greek and Roman religion.The Calydonian boar /Martin West.Lesbian Sappho revisited /André Lardinois.The significance (or insignificance) of blackness in mythological names /Richard Buxton.The creativity of disaster /Sarah Iles Johnston.Untimely death for the young girl : etiological foundations and...

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Publié dans:Studies in the history of religions
Collaborateurs: Bremmer, Jan N. 1944- (Autre) ; Dijkstra, Jitse H. F. 1976- (Autre) ; Kroesen, Justin E. A. 1975- (Autre) ; Kuiper, Yme 1949- (Autre)
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Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Leiden Boston Brill 2010
Dans: Studies in the history of religions (volume 127)
Collection/Revue:Studies in the history of religions volume 127
Sujets non-standardisés:B Histoire de l’Église
B Modernité
B BODY, MIND & SPIRIT ; Gaia & Earth Energies
B Myths
B Griechenland (Altertum)
B Interfaith Relations
B RELIGION ; Christianity ; General
B History
B Römisches Reich
B Christianity and other religions Judaism
B Judaïsme primitif
B Bremmer, Jan N
B Civilization, Modern
B Religionshistoria
B Electronic books
B Judaïsme
B Mythologie
B Religion History
B Mytologi
B Judaism Relations Christianity
B Myth
B Christianisme primitif
B Religion
B Antiquité
B Christianity
B Electronic books History
B Christianity ; Origin
B Judaism
B Mythology
B Publication commémorative
B Bremmer, Jan Nicolaas
B Christianity Origin
B Christianisme
B Kristendom och judendom
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Résumé:Greek and Roman religion.The Calydonian boar /Martin West.Lesbian Sappho revisited /André Lardinois.The significance (or insignificance) of blackness in mythological names /Richard Buxton.The creativity of disaster /Sarah Iles Johnston.Untimely death for the young girl : etiological foundations and initiation practices in classical Athens /Claude Calame.The so-called envy of the gods : revisiting a dogma of ancient Greek religion /Lautario Roig Lanzilotta.Earthquakes and the gods : reflections on Graeco-Roman responses to catastrophic events /Fritz Graf.Oracles and Greek mentalities : the mantic confirmation of mantic revelations /Pierre Bonnechere.Pharaian kledomancy /Kenneth Lapatin.A Socratic leaf charm for headache (Charmides 155b-157c), Orphic gold leaves, and the ancient Greek tradition of leaf amulets /Christopher A. Faraone.Callimachus' sacrifice to Apollo (fragment 1.21-24) /Ruurd R. Nauta.Women's affairs? : on a group of Attic votive reliefs with unusual decoration /Anja Klöckner.New problems in Athenian religion : the 'sacred law' from Aixone /Robert Parker.Contracting caterers on Keos /Peter van Minnen.Mnasistratos, the 'hierophant' at Andania (IG 5.1.1390 and Syll.³ 735) /Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge.Pictures from an execution /Nicholas Horsfall.Magian lessons in natural history : unique animals in Graeco-Roman natural magic /Richard Gordon.Pliny : the piety of a persecutor /Walter Ameling.Religio versus religion /Giovanni Casadio --Judaism and early Christianity.Scribal practices in the Aramaic literary texts from Qumran /Florentino García Martínez.The greatest translation of all time : the cultural importance of the Septuagint /Jack Miles.The reception of Daniel 3 and 6 and the Maccabean martyrdoms in Hebrews 11:33-38 /Jan Willem van Henten.Without God : some notes on a Greek expression /Pieter W. van der Horst.Is early Christianity a religion or a philosophy? : reflections on the importance of 'knowledge' and 'truth' in the letters of Paul and Peter /George H. van Kooten.Rationales for the adoption of Christianity /Ken Dowden.Rewriting and textual fluidity in antiquity : exploring the socio-cultural and psychological context of earliest Christian literacy /István Czachesz.Thomas in Edessa? : another look at the original setting of the Gospel of Thomas /Pierluigi Piovanelli.Orphics and Gnostics /Einar Thomassen.Recognizing demons /Jan den Boeft.Alternative uses of garments in the Graeco-Roman world /Ton Hilhorst.Athens or Jerusalem? : from eschatological hopes to cultural memory /Guy G. Stroumsa.
History of religion and modernity.The gospel of Kauṇḍinya : the descent of God in Gujarat and the practice of imitating God /Hans Bakker.From alien to familiar : Christ in language and law of medieval Frisia /Rolf H. Bremmer Jr.The Platonic frenzies in Marsilio Ficino /Wouter J. Hanegraaff.Living well and living on : martyrdom and the Imago vitae in the early modern age /Christoph Auffarth.Religious knowledge and the origins of modernity /Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt.Si vis me flere-- : on preachers, passions and pathos in eighteenth-century Europe /Herman Roodenburg.On Monte Verità : myth and modernity in the Lebensreform movement /Yme Kuiper.For the sake of the community : two scripts of martyrdom operations among Muslims /Hans G. Kippenberg.Rewriting the book of nature : Kabbalah and the metaphors of contemporary life-sciences /Kocku von Stuckrad.
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ISBN:9004193650