Cognitive approaches to ancient religious experience

by Eidinow, Esther Geertz, Armin W. North, John

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Full title :Cognitive approaches to ancient religious experience / edited by Esther Eidinow, Armin W. Geertz, John North.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2022

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2022

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The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiv, 299 pages) : PDF file(s).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781009019927, 1009019929, 9781316515334, 1316515338, 9781009011600, 100901160X
DOI:10.1017/9781009019927
oclc:on1341414702
Dewey Decimal:292

Subjects

Civilization, Ancient Cognition and culture Cognition and culture -- Greece Cognition and culture -- Rome Experience (Religion) Greece Greece -- Religious life and customs Rome -- Religious life and customs Rome (Empire)