The Gods, the State, and the Individual: Reflections on Civic Religion in Rome

✍ Scribed by John Scheid; Clifford Ando; Clifford Ando

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 199
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Since the 1970s, John Scheid has been one of the most influential figures reshaping scholarly understanding of ancient Roman religion. The Gods, the State, and the Individual presents a translation of Scheid's work that chronicles the development of his field-changing scholarship.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Translator’s Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Critique of Polis-Religion: An Inventory
Chapter 2 Polis and Republic: The price of Misunderstanding
Chapter 3 The Individual in the City
Chapter 4 Civic Religion: A discourse of the Elite?
Chapter 5 Civic Religion and Identity
Chapter 6 For Whom Were the Rituals Celebrated?
Chapter 7 Religious Repression
Chapter 8 Civic Religion, a Modality of Communal Religion
Chapter 9 Emotion and Belief
Chapter 10 Why Did Roman Religion Change?
Chapter 11 The Gods, the State, and the Individual
Notes
Index
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
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W
Acknowledgments

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