Sceptic and Believer in Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Edited by Janet E. Spittler Edited by Tobias Nicklas Edited by Babett Edelmann-Singer Edited by Luigi Walt
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(August 2020)
ISBN: 9783161563058
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What is the role of scepticism in the religious landscape of the ancient Mediterranean? How is doubt expressed within a religious community? How does “insider doubt” differ from the sceptical attitude of outsiders? The essays in this volume explore these questions with respect to a range of ancient religious contexts.
What are the roles of doubt and scepticism in the religious landscape of the ancient Mediterranean? How is doubt expressed within a specific religious community, and what reactions does it provoke? How does “insider doubt” differ from the sceptical attitude of outsiders? Exploring these questions with respect to a wide range of religious contexts and topics (including early Christianity, Greco-Roman religions, Egyptian religions, astrology, and magic), the essays in this volume confirm the thesis that doubting one’s own religious tradition is not simply a “Western” post-Enlightenment phenomenon. On the contrary, ancient religions offered opportunities and contexts wherein aspects of doubt are not just tolerated but accepted; moreover, doubt and scepticism concerning certain religious ideas or aspects of belief also motivated creative reinterpretation of those ideas.
Clifford Ando: Disbelief and Cognate Concepts in Roman Antiquity - Jan Assmann: Ancient Egyptian Disbelief in the Promises of Eternity - Tim Whitmarsh: The Invention of Atheism and the Invention of Religion in Classical Athens - Jan N. Bremmer: Youth, Atheism, and (Un)Belief in Late Fifth-Century Athens - Matthew A. Fox: Disbelief in Rome: A Reappraisal - Babett Edelmann-Singer: "Who Will Worship This Man as a God, Who Will Believe in Him?" - Seneca's Apocolocyntosis and the Hermeneutical Categories of Belief and Scepticism in Emperor Cult - Kai Trampedach: Plutarch als Apologet des Orakels von Delphi - Janet Downie: Belief and Doubt in Aelius Aristides's Isthmian Oration: To Poseidon - Inger N.I. Kuin: Loukianos Atheos? Humour and Religious Doubt in Lucian of Samosata - Tobias Nicklas: Skepsis und Christusglaube: Funktionen, Räume und Impulse des Zweifels bei Paulus - David P. Moessner: Luke as Sceptical "Insider" - Re-configuring the "Tradition" by Re-figuring the "Synoptic" Plot - Benjamin Schliesser: The Gospel for Sceptics: Doubting Thomas (John 20:24-29) and Early Christian Identity Formation - Anna Van den Kerchove: "Why Do You Doubt?" - Scepticism and Some Nag Hammadi Writings - Richard L. Gordon: Evading Doubt: Astrology and Magic in the Greco-Roman Period
- Edited by Janet E. Spittler
- Edited by Tobias Nicklas
- Edited by Babett Edelmann-Singer
- Edited by Luigi Walt
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