Inventing Superstition: From the Hippocratics to the Christians

by Dale B. Martin

Book Overview

The Roman author Pliny the Younger characterizes Christianity as contagious superstition; two centuries later the Christian writer Eusebius vigorously denounces Greek and Roman religions as vain and impotent superstitions. The term of abuse is the same, yet the two writers suggest entirely different things by superstition.

Dale Martin provides the first detailed genealogy of the idea of superstition, its history over eight centuries, from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674024079
• ISBN13: 9780674024076
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.9"