Imagine No Religion: How Modern Abstractions Hide Ancient Realities

by Daniel Boyarin and Carlin A. Barton

Book Overview

What do we fail to see when we force other, earlier cultures into the Procrustean bed of concepts that organize our contemporary world? In Imagine No Religion, Carlin A. Barton and Daniel Boyarin map the myriad meanings of the Latin and Greek words religio and thrēskeia, frequently and reductively mistranslated as "religion," in order to explore the manifold nuances of their uses within ancient Roman and Greek societies. In doing so, they reveal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082327120X
• ISBN13: 9780823271207
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.9"