Religious Deviance in the Roman World: Superstition or Individuality?

ISBN-13: 9781107090521 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 159 str.

Jörg Rüpke

Opis

Offers a new reading of the ancient sources in order to find indications for religious deviance practices in the Roman world.

Spis treści

1. Superstitio: conceptions of religious deviance in Roman antiquity; 2. Creation of religious norms in the Late Republic; 3. The role of ethos and knowledge in controlling religious deviance: a Tiberian view of priestly deviance; 4. De superstitione: religious experiences best not had in temples; 5. The normative discourse in Late Antiquity; 6. The individual in a world of competing religious norms; 7. Deviance and individuation: from Cicero to Theodosius.