A different god?: Dionysos and ancient polytheism
"In this book, a distinguished team of authors explores the way space, place, architecture, and ritual interact to construct sacred experience in the historical cultures of the eastern Mediterranean. Essays address fundamental issues and features that enable buildings to perform…
Draws on funerary remains, tomb paintings, architecture and textual evidence to explore all aspects of women in Egypt from goddesses and queens to women as the vessels of creation.
Draws on funerary remains, tomb paintings, architecture and textual evidence to explore all aspects of women in Egypt from goddesses and queens to women as the vessels of creation.
Light and darkness played an important role beyond the division of time in ancient Greek myth and religion; the contributors to Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion consider its function on both the individual and social level as manifested in modes of thought a…
Philo von Alexandria, der etwas ältere Zeitgenosse des Paulus, ist der wichtigste Repräsentant des alexandrinischen Judentums. An der Schnittstelle von biblischer Überlieferung sowie platonischer und stoischer Philosophie bieten die Schriften Philos eine ganz eigenständige jüdis…
Beginning with Colin Campbell's 1972 theory of cultic mileu, this book discusses the varied oppositional groups of today, such as the diverse protestors who converged in Seattle in 1999 to shut down the meetings of the World Trade Organization.
