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Individuality In Late Antiquity
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Author : Alexis Torrance
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-23
Individuality In Late Antiquity written by Alexis Torrance and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-23 with Philosophy categories.
Late antiquity is increasingly recognised as a period of important cultural transformation. One of its crucial aspects is the emergence of a new awareness of human individuality. In this book an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars documents and analyses this development. Authors assess the influence of seminal thinkers, including the Gnostics, Plotinus, and Augustine, but also of cultural and religious practices such as astrology and monasticism, as well as, more generally, the role played by intellectual disciplines such as grammar and Christian theology. Broad in both theme and scope, the volume serves as a comprehensive introduction to late antique understandings of human individuality.
Individuality In Late Antiquity
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Author : Alexis Torrance
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Individuality In Late Antiquity written by Alexis Torrance and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
Late antiquity is increasingly recognised as a period of important cultural transformation. One of its crucial aspects is the emergence of a new awareness of human individuality. In this book an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars documents and analyses this development. Authors assess the influence of seminal thinkers, including the Gnostics, Plotinus, and Augustine, but also of cultural and religious practices such as astrology and monasticism, as well as, more generally, the role played by intellectual disciplines such as grammar and Christian theology. Broad in both theme and scope, the volume serves as a comprehensive introduction to late antique understandings of human individuality.
Group Identity And Religious Individuality In Late Antiquity
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Author : Eric Rebillard
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 2015
Group Identity And Religious Individuality In Late Antiquity written by Eric Rebillard and has been published by CUA Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Religion categories.
To understand the past, we necessarily group people together and, consequently, frequently assume that all of its members share the same attributes. In this ground-breaking volume, Eric Rebillard and Jörg Rüpke bring renowned scholars together to challenge this norm by seeking to rediscover the individual and to explore the dynamics between individuals and the groups to which they belong.
Self Self Fashioning And Individuality In Late Antiquity
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Author : Maren R. Niehoff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Self Self Fashioning And Individuality In Late Antiquity written by Maren R. Niehoff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
This collection of articles places the frequently discussed question of the introvert Self into a new interdisciplinary context: rather than tracing a linear development from social forms of life with an outward orientation to individual introspection, it argues for significant overlaps between interior and exterior dimensions, between the Self and society. A team of internationally renowned experts from different fields examines pagan, Jewish and Christian voices on an equal basis and explores the complexity of their messages. Philosophical texts are analyzed next to letters, legal sources, Bible interpretation and material evidence. Not only is the experience of individuals examined, but also instructions from authoritative figures in a position to shape constructions of the Self. The book is divided into three parts; namely, "Constructing the Self", a field usually treated by philosophers, "Self-Fashioning", generally associated with literature, and "Self and Individual in Society", commonly the domain of historians. This volume shows the complexity of each category and their overlaps by engaging unexpected sources in each section and interrogating internal as well as external dimensions.
Self Self Fashioning And Individuality In Late Antiquity
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Author : Maren R. Niehoff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Self Self Fashioning And Individuality In Late Antiquity written by Maren R. Niehoff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
This collection of articles places the frequently discussed question of the introvert Self into a new interdisciplinary context: rather than tracing a linear development from social forms of life with an outward orientation to individual introspection, it argues for significant overlaps between interior and exterior dimensions, between the Self and society. A team of internationally renowned experts from different fields examines Pagan, Jewish and Christian voices on an equal basis and explores the complexity of their messages. Philosophical texts are analyzed next to letters, legal sources, Bible interpretation and material evidence. Not only is the experience of individuals examined, but also instructions from authoritative figures in a position to shape constructions of the Self. The book is divided into three parts; namely, "Constructing the Self", a field usually treated by philosophers, "Self-Fashioning", generally associated with literature, and "Self and Individual in Society", commonly the domain of historians. This volume shows the complexity of each category and their overlaps by engaging unexpected sources in each section and interrogating internal as well as external dimensions.
Reflections On Religious Individuality
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Author : Jörg Rüpke
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2012-07-04
Reflections On Religious Individuality written by Jörg Rüpke and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-04 with Religion categories.
This volume will concentrate its search for religious individuality on texts and practices related to texts from Classical Greece to Late Antiquity. Texts offer opportunities to express one’s own religious experience and shape one’s own religious personality within the boundaries of what is acceptable. Inscriptions in public or at least easily accessible spaces might substantially differ in there range of expressions and topics from letters within a sectarian religious group (which, at the same time, might put enormous pressure on conformity among its members, regarded as deviant by a majority of contemporaries). Furthermore, texts might offer and advocate new practices in reading, meditating, remembering or repeating these very texts. Such practices might contribute to the development of religious individuality, experienced or expressed in factual isolation, responsibility, competition, and finally in philosophical or theological reflections about “personhood” or “self”. The volume develops its topic in three sections, addressing personhood, representative and charismatic individuality, the interaction of individual and groups and practices of reading and writing. It explores Jewish, Christian, Greek and Latin texts.
Religious Deviance In The Roman World
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Author : Jörg Rüpke
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-05-16
Religious Deviance In The Roman World written by Jörg Rüpke and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-16 with History categories.
Offers a new reading of the ancient sources in order to find indications for religious deviance practices in the Roman world.
Shaping Letters Shaping Communities Multilingualism And Linguistic Practice In The Late Antique Near East And Egypt
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-12-11
Shaping Letters Shaping Communities Multilingualism And Linguistic Practice In The Late Antique Near East And Egypt written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-11 with Religion categories.
The volume explores linguistic practices and choices in the late antique Eastern Mediterranean. It investigates how linguistic diversity and change influenced the social dimension of human interaction, affected group dynamics, the expression and negotiation of various communal identities, such as professional groups of mosaic-makers, stonecutters, or their supervisors in North Syria, bilingual monastic communities in Palestine, elusive producers of Coptic ritual texts in Egypt, or Jewish communities in Dura Europos and Palmyra. The key question is: what do we learn about social groups and human individuals by studying their multilingualism and language practices reflected in epigraphic and other written sources?
The Roman Self In Late Antiquity
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Author : Marc Mastrangelo
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2008-01-21
The Roman Self In Late Antiquity written by Marc Mastrangelo and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Roman Self in Late Antiquity for the first time situates Prudentius within a broad intellectual, political, and literary context of fourth-century Rome. As Marc Mastrangelo convincingly demonstrates, the late-fourth-century poet drew on both pagan and Christian intellectual traditions—especially Platonism, Vergilian epic poetics, and biblical exegesis—to define a new vision of the self for the newly Christian Roman Empire. Mastrangelo proposes an original theory of Prudentius's allegorical poetry and establishes Prudentius as a successor to Vergil. Employing recent approaches to typology and biblical exegesis as well as the most current theories of allusion and intertextuality in Latin poetry, he interprets the meaning and influence of Prudentius's work and positions the poet as a vital author for the transmission of the classical tradition to the early modern period. This provocative study challenges the view that poetry in the fourth century played a subordinate role to patristic prose in forging Christian Roman identity. It seeks to restore poetry to its rightful place as a crucial source for interpreting the rich cultural and intellectual life of the era.
The Individual In The Religions Of The Ancient Mediterranean
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Author : Jörg Rüpke
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2013-08-29
The Individual In The Religions Of The Ancient Mediterranean written by Jörg Rüpke and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-29 with History categories.
Ancient religions are usually treated as collective and political phenomena and, apart from a few towering figures, the individual religious agent has fallen out of view. Addressing this gap, the essays in this volume focus on the individual and individuality in ancient Mediterranean religion. Even in antiquity, individual religious action was not determined by traditional norms handed down through families and the larger social context, but rather options were open and choices were made. On the part of the individual, this development is reflected in changes in 'individuation', the parallel process of a gradual full integration into society and the development of self-reflection and of a notion of individual identity. These processes are analysed within the Hellenistic and Imperial periods, down to Christian-dominated late antiquity, in both pagan polytheistic as well as Jewish monotheistic settings. The volume focuses on individuation in everyday religious practices in Phoenicia, various Greek cities, and Rome, and as identified in institutional developments and philosophical reflections on the self as exemplified by the Stoic Seneca.