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The Gods, the State, and the Individual - Reflections on Civic Religion in Rome (Hardcover)
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The Gods, the State, and the Individual - Reflections on Civic Religion in Rome (Hardcover)
Series: Empire and After
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Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to
historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the
three Abrahamic religions. The Romans had no sacred text that
espoused its creed or offered a portrait of its foundational myth.
They described relations with the divine using technical terms
widely employed to describe relations with other humans. Indeed,
there was not even a word in classical Latin that corresponds to
the English word religion. In The Gods, the State, and the
Individual, John Scheid confronts these and other challenges
directly. If Roman religious practice has long been dismissed as a
cynical or naive system of borrowed structures unmarked by any true
piety, Scheid contends that this is the result of a misplaced
expectation that the basis of religion lies in an individual's
personal and revelatory relationship with his or her god. He argues
that when viewed in the light of secular history as opposed to
Christian theology, Roman religion emerges as a legitimate
phenomenon in which rituals, both public and private, enforced a
sense of communal, civic, and state identity. Since the 1970s,
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.
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