Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience (Hardcover)

For some time interest has been growing in a dialogue between modern scientific research into human cognition and research in the humanities. This ground-breaking volume focuses this dialogue on the religious experience of men and women in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Each chapter examines a particular historical problem arising from an ancient religious activity and the contributions range across a wide variety of both ancient contexts and sources, exploring and integrating literary, epigraphic, visual and archaeological evidence. In order to avoid a simple polarity between physical aspects (ritual) and mental aspects (belief) of religion, the contributors draw on theories of cognition as embodied, emergent, enactive and extended, accepting the complexity, multimodality and multicausality of human life. Through this interdisciplinary approach, the chapters open up new questions around and develop new insights into the physical, emotional, and cognitive aspects of ancient religions.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Ancient Religion and Cognition
Release date:	August 2022
Editors:	Esther Eidinow • Armin W. Geertz • John North
Dimensions:	235 x 158 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	348
ISBN-13:	978-1-316-51533-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion
LSN:	1-316-51533-8
Barcode:	9781316515334

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