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The Individual in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean (Hardcover)
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The Individual in the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean (Hardcover)
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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.
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