Memory and Religious Experience in the Greco-Roman World

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ID19929294
EditorsNicola Cusumano, Valentino Gasparini (0000-0002-3345-0062), Attilio Mastrocinque (0000-0002-4651-7596), Jörg Rüpke (0000-0002-4173-9587)
Year2013
Publication date2013-11-04
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMemory and Religious Experience in the Greco-Roman World (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherFranz Steiner Verlag (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.25162/9783515105743
OpenAlexW2565334238
Open LibraryOL48746364M
ISBN9783515105743
LanguageEN
Citations received6

The concepts of memory and experience have stimulated interest in a wide range of recent cultural studies. In the history of scholarship on religion in Mediterranean antiquity, scholars have focused on the emotional dimension of both terms by employing the concepts of 'Christianity' and its derivative, 'oriental religion'. Only recently analyses in this field started focusing on interaction and individual experience. Research initiatives at Palermo and Erfurt have taken up this lead and brought together a group of scholars testing such approaches for new perspectives on the history of religion in the Greek and Roman world. This volume reviews the cognitive and emotional dimensions of such experiences in their diverse local, social, and ritual contexts. Memory likewise opens a window onto the interaction of individual and society. Contributions address the individual processes of memorialization and remembrance. They analyse the collective evocation of memories and their shaping of individual memory

Aesthetics · Art · Collective memory · Evocation · Memorialization · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropology · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · civilization · Classical antiquities · Classical Mythology · Congresses · greco-roman · Greece · Memory · Mythology, classical · Religion · Religious aspects · Rome

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