The Study of Greek and Roman Religions: Insularity and Assimilation
How should ancient religious ideas be approached? Is "religion" an applicable term to antiquity? Should classicists, ancient historians, and religious studies scholars work more closely together?

Nickolas P. Roubekas argues that there is a disciplinary gap between the study of Greek and Roman religions and the study of “religion” as a category-a gap that has often resulted in contradictory conclusions regarding Greek and Roman religion. This book addresses this lack of interdisciplinarity by providing an overview, criticism, and assessment of this chasm. It provides a theoretical approach to this historical period, raising the issue of the relationship between “theory of religion” and “history of religion,” and explores how history influences theory and vice versa. It also presents an in-depth critique of some crucial problems that have been central to the discussions of scholars who work on Graeco-Roman antiquity, encouraging us to re-examine how we approach the study of ancient religions.
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The Study of Greek and Roman Religions: Insularity and Assimilation
How should ancient religious ideas be approached? Is "religion" an applicable term to antiquity? Should classicists, ancient historians, and religious studies scholars work more closely together?

Nickolas P. Roubekas argues that there is a disciplinary gap between the study of Greek and Roman religions and the study of “religion” as a category-a gap that has often resulted in contradictory conclusions regarding Greek and Roman religion. This book addresses this lack of interdisciplinarity by providing an overview, criticism, and assessment of this chasm. It provides a theoretical approach to this historical period, raising the issue of the relationship between “theory of religion” and “history of religion,” and explores how history influences theory and vice versa. It also presents an in-depth critique of some crucial problems that have been central to the discussions of scholars who work on Graeco-Roman antiquity, encouraging us to re-examine how we approach the study of ancient religions.
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The Study of Greek and Roman Religions: Insularity and Assimilation

The Study of Greek and Roman Religions: Insularity and Assimilation

by Nickolas P. Roubekas
The Study of Greek and Roman Religions: Insularity and Assimilation

The Study of Greek and Roman Religions: Insularity and Assimilation

by Nickolas P. Roubekas

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How should ancient religious ideas be approached? Is "religion" an applicable term to antiquity? Should classicists, ancient historians, and religious studies scholars work more closely together?

Nickolas P. Roubekas argues that there is a disciplinary gap between the study of Greek and Roman religions and the study of “religion” as a category-a gap that has often resulted in contradictory conclusions regarding Greek and Roman religion. This book addresses this lack of interdisciplinarity by providing an overview, criticism, and assessment of this chasm. It provides a theoretical approach to this historical period, raising the issue of the relationship between “theory of religion” and “history of religion,” and explores how history influences theory and vice versa. It also presents an in-depth critique of some crucial problems that have been central to the discussions of scholars who work on Graeco-Roman antiquity, encouraging us to re-examine how we approach the study of ancient religions.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350102620
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 07/14/2022
Series: Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
File size: 438 KB

About the Author

Nickolas P. Roubekas is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. His previous publications include An Ancient Theory of Religion: Euhemerism from Antiquity to the Present (2017), Theorizing “Religion” in Antiquity (2018), Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth (2020), and The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion (2nd ed., 2021). He is editor-in-chief of NUMEN: International Review for the History of Religions.

Nickolas P. Roubekas is Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
1. “Closing a Book None the Wiser”; Or Should a Scholar of Religion Happen to Meet a Classicist
2. Burning Bridges?
3. (No) Greek and Roman “Religions”
4. Comparative Nausea
5. The Departing Gods
6. Re(ap)proaching the Study of Greek and Roman Religions
Appendix I-Re: Hesiod
Appendix II-On Belief
Appendix III-A Typology of Religions
References
Index
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